RE: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Betts
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM:: The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Andreas Eibach
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Andreas Eibach wrote: From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge Why are you duplicating the headers of the email in the body of the message? There is no need

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Farley
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker here just trying to keep track of events in cygwin-X, but I do think your arguments for re-merging the lists are not

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker here just trying to keep track of events in cygwin-X, but I do think

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge That may have been true until November 12. But in the last four weeks since X11R7.4, there have been ~500 messages on cygwin-xfree, including 30 announcements (including 3 xserver

RE: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again, and why/how did they go away? -- Gary R. Van Sickle --

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again,

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:33:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread jose isaias cabrera
I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:49 PM Subject: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. You have my mild sympathy. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread sowiso
I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks this has escaped me then. :P -a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I applaud the change! And while some hippos may not be sanguine, Elephant\Rhinos (Elifinos!, as in, 'El-if-i-no which list to send it to') are ecstatic! ;-) Lee sowiso wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Exactly. .-) - Original Message - From: sowiso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:07 PM Subject: *SPAM* Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Eibach
Will Parsons wrote: You may not consider it a compelling argument, but I find the traffic on the cygwin list more than enough already, and am glad I don't have to bother about the cygwin-xfree traffic. I'd prefer to keep things as is. But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! Just check the

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andreas Eibach wrote: But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! This is ridiculously few compared to 2 years ago when Harold L Hunt put more work into this _per week_ than all people together summed up from summer to end of this year! That may have