This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Is it possible to get a read-only subscription to cygwin-developers, to listen and learn?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
>>>> ...
>>>> Would you consider the creation of a
>>>> 'cygwin-developers-readonly@' list? I
>>>> imagine that it would be possible to create it as an
>>>> announcement list, and then
>>>> subscribe the post address for the new list to cygwin-developers@ ?
>
> It's more of a question of whether there is a mechanism to do this
> with ezmlm. AFAIK, there isn't.
Wouldn't what I outlined above work? Nevermind, though. I see what you mean
below about cross-post mayhem, so I'll just content myself with the archives.
Max.
> I also have to admit that I am not really wild about the idea of
> adding lurkers to the cygwin-developers mailing list. We've already
> seen much confusion where people are cc'ing cygwin-apps instead of
> cygwin and vice versa. We occasionally even see this with current
> cygwin-developers subscribers. Making cygwin-developers available to
> non-subscribers, even via a read-only mechanism, will certainly open
> the door to more annoying cross-mailing-list traffic. I think there
> is nearly a 100% certainty of this.
>
> So, the web is the best mechanism for reading what's going on in
> cygwin-developers. Sorry.
>
> cgf
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/