why the attitude?

[Charles Wilson]

I apologize to all concerned.  There *was* a communication problem.

As I now understand it,
   Lars created the site/software that allows MANY mailing lists to be 
gatewayed to nntp. (I thought this was a special thing created just for 
cygwin.  I was wrong.  Sorry for the confusion.)

   Somebody else "hooked up" cygwin's mailing lists to Lars' gmane 
system.  (I thought Lars did this.  I was wrong.  Sorry for the confusion.)

   A third person posted the announcement on the cygwin webpage, since 
nobody could figure out who the person in step #2 was.

   Everybody now knows that there is an nntp-maillist gateway.

Hooray for collaboration.  Let's all go write some code now.

--Chuck


Scott Evans wrote:

> I've subscribed to this list for some time now, and it still surprises
> me when the project admins (and heavy contributors) come down on folks
> so hard, because they're not contributing their own fixes, or not
> understanding what someone wrote, or whatever.  This last thread about
> the news server really slammed it home for me... to an outsider there was
> an obvious communication barrier, and Lars (who's quite an upstanding open
> source guy himself, as the author of Gnus for Emacs) gets flamed from all
> sides when in fact he really *doesn't* have anything to do with Cygwin,
> and was allowing one of his other (open source) projects to be used
> for Cygwin's benefit.  Sad.
> 
> Guys, I realize Cygwin is open source and that you all work hard
> to improve it, and that you'd love to have people contribute more.
> Being nasty ain't the way to do it.
> 
> 
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