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Re: A user friendly suggestion


Well, I've done it both ways. I've followed the list over the last year via the Web, and only recently I've subscribed in order to keep closer track of the 1.3.16-17 issues.

Digests are fine for some people (and slower mailing-lists), but others (like me) hate scrolling up and down inside a message to find similar subjects/threads, and then having to follow parts of the plot in other digests, so on and so forth. It's a royal pain, and does not save any real amount of time or traffic - rather the opposite, at least for me. :)

So I re-subscribed to the mailing-list and, after two weeks (and even though it's been easy to tame procmail to do my bidding), I'm already considering unsubscribing due to the sheer volume of mail (and I don't actually store it on my box, but on an IMAP server, so I read it from _five_ different boxes now...). Cygwin + darwinports + chimera + a bundle of networking and security lists equals around 200 messages a day... :/

The web archive is much easier to handle, so any little enhancements (like adding the subject to the mailto: link, which seems a trivial endeavour that no-one will pick up on for sheer lack of time) would be welcome.

Since this "why don't you subscribe" thing seems to happen every single time anyone mentions they are not subscribed, I'd like to suggest the following addition to the Cygwin FAQ or netiquette section for the mailing-lists: :)

"Please remember that people who read the mailing-list via the Web should not be treated like second-class citizens. Given the Web's form of interaction, they have to make an effort to follow the list actively, not just lurking passively until mail arrives."

And now, back to Cygwin. :)

Rui Carmo

On Saturday, Dec 7, 2002, at 22:07 Europe/Lisbon, elfyn-cygwin@mail.exposure.org.uk wrote:

Hi,

Im not sure about everyone else, but I subscribe to the list so I get the
messages in my mailbox. If you do subscribe and you don't want to get all
of the messages from the list you can use the cygwin-digest, a daily digest
of the traffic on the list, instead of revieving all and every message.

See http://cygwin.com/ml/

On the latter is could not see your post... Whats it called?

Elfyn
elfyn@exposure.org.uk

Original Message:
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From: Joseph I. Davida jd108@pacbell.net
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:09:56 -0800
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: A user friendly suggestion


Hi folks,
It would be nice if the postings to the Cygwin
mailing lists contain a link to reply to the posting
when these articles are viewed via a web browser via
URL http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/
It would obviate cutting and pasting.

Thanks,

Joe

P.S: has anyone experienced the problems I have posted
about setup.exe on Win2K Professional?

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