Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list
On 22/09/2023 00:46, Duncan Roe via Cygwin wrote Hi cygwin, On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin 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). Can someone with appropriate access update https://cygwin.com/lists.html then please? It still says " Announcements sent to cygwin-announce are automatically sent to the Cygwin mailing list so there is no reason to subscribe to both ...". Thanks for pointing this out. I have removed that sentence. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list
Hi cygwin, On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin 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). > Can someone with appropriate access update https://cygwin.com/lists.html then please? It still says " Announcements sent to cygwin-announce are automatically sent to the Cygwin mailing list so there is no reason to subscribe to both ...". I tried subscribing, but no confirmation email after half an hour. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list
On 2023-09-21 08:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin 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). e.g. https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin-announce/ also https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/ - also provides Atom/RSS feed link options https://marc.info/?l=cygwin-announce&r=1&w=2 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
