On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:34:57PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Hmm... > >Well, we never really defined what the policy was regarding >announcements. I have been cross-posting them for years now :) > >I'm the one that told Volker to do the cross-post, it is my fault. He >was just doing what I asked him to do. > >I also was not able to get the list of subscribers for both lists until >recently. One list has about 340 people while the other has about 370. > It seems that there is a lot of overlap, so it would probably be okay >to stop posting announcements at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Heck, I didn't even realize that so many people were signed up for >cygwin-xfree-announce. I thought it was being ignored. Guess I should >have checked those lists earlier. > >I guess that is it then. The policy is changed. I won't cross-post >announcements anymore. > >Thanks for making me think this through :)
FWIW, cygwin-announce email shows up on cygwin thanks to a repeater running on my system. I did this because people on the cygwin list complained that they weren't seeing announcements and didn't want to have to subscribe to two mailing lists. Just a different point of view, I guess. cgf
