Why not a news server?

[Peter Buckley]

I like the mailing list. I don't have a news server at work, so I 
wouldn't be able to access a newsgroup like we are discussing. I have no 
problem searching the mailing list archives with google- I wasn't aware 
that there was a date at which the MLA were truncated- I have seen stuff 
a few years back IIRC. I tried a different mailing list with a "digest 
version" and it was awful- I won't try any digests any time soon, I 
simply wipe out my cygwin-email folder when it gets around 1000 messages 
and rely on the archives.

-Peter

Daniel Adams wrote:

> I will be the first one to make a comment of a NNTP server for hosting this
> group and possibly the other groups for Cygwin, isn't that after all what a
> NNTP group is designed for. I would be one to second Andrew's idea because
> of the idea that often times I am in need of searching about a certain idea
> in the archives and not only does it bring up the relative needed
> information, it also brings up stuff from many years back.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Daniel Adams - dpa3@dana.ucc.nau.edu
> http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dpa3
> 
>   1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)-  Each one should use whatever gift he has received to
> serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:00 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Why not a news server?
> 
> 
> Why not simply set up a news server instead of this mail list. I find
> the mail list deficient in several areas. First and foremost it's noisy
> causing me to wade through all this email for topics I'm interested in.
> Secondly there's no easy or convenient way to response to individual
> issues (I get a digest of cygwin stuff emailed to me). Seems to me that
> nntp was designed specifically for such communications and a number of
> companies have set up news servers for such things.
> 
> Finally a number of times I receive a digest speaking of topics and
> articles but the email message is apparently truncated and the bodies of
> these articles are missing.
> 
> Comments? (I'm sure there will be some).
> 
> 
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