cygwin-announce configuration change

[Jon Turney]

On 21/09/2023 15:54, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 21/09/2023 15:46, Jon Turney 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).
> 
> Maintainers,
> 
> Following this change, I intend to adjust the configuration for the 
> cygwin-announce list so it automatically appends the footer suggested in 
> [1] (so you will no longer need to append it manually, if you are 

This is done (with an updated version of that footer which contains 
correct, rather than outdated instructions).

> currently in the minority remembering to doing so :) ).
> 
> I'll also amend those instructions to remove that suggestion.
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html#announcement