Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Sep 22 11:37:37 GMT 2023
On 22/09/2023 00:46, Duncan Roe via Cygwin wrote
> Hi cygwin,
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote:
>>
>> The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list
>> to the cygwin mailing list has been removed.
>>
>> This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the
>> messages, sometimes they don't get forwarded), apparently prevents us from
>> adding a meaningful standard footer (e.g. with unsubscribe instructions, so
>> we have to rely on maintainers remembering to add it manually), and no-one
>> seems to know why we're doing it.
>>
>> If you want to continue to receive these announcements in the future, please
>> consider subscribing to the cygwin-announce mailing list (or reading it via
>> news://news.gmane.io/gmane.os.cygwin.announce, or via the various protocols
>> that inbox.sourceware.org provides).
>>
> Can someone with appropriate access update https://cygwin.com/lists.html then
> please? It still says " Announcements sent to cygwin-announce are automatically
> sent to the Cygwin mailing list so there is no reason to subscribe to both ...".
Thanks for pointing this out. I have removed that sentence.
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