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Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
- From: Lisi <lists at shemeshdirectory dot co dot il>
- To: Thomas Mellman <tmellman at web dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:31:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
OK, let me clarify - I guess what I would really like is a Cygwin-specific
*Unix* beginner's list. My desire is not to get rid of stupid questions,
since I think all my questions are probably stupid, but rather the
questions that are just over my head and make me feel like I will never be
at that level.
What I want probably does not exist, since most people probably do not use
Cygwin the way I do. I am using it as a way to learn Unix on my Windows
machine without having to partition my hard drive and risk any of my
Windows data.
Maybe I should just join a Unix newbie list, any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
-Lisi
At 01:08 PM 9/30/02 +0200, Thomas Mellman wrote:
<20020926063518 dot GA1292 at raphael dot oninet dot pt>
>> The Cygwin list seems to do fine, though a beginners list would be
nice.
> I would definitely appreciate a beginner's list, one where we could ask
questions like "Hey, I'm not even sure if > this is a Cygwin question or
a <specific
> application> question but could anyone help..."
This *is* the beginners list. The experts list is cygwin-developers.
I'm afraid that the call for a "beginners-list" springs from a desire to
get rid
of all the "stupid questions", which is generally defined as
"everybody-else's question but mine".
If we define a still-more-beginner's list, it will be a write-only list.
> The amount of traffic on this list is *very* (see? not shouting)
overwhelming, and I for one am a complete Unix > newbie trying to makes
sense of a *lot* of
> new information.
Try
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/ (or
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10)
It works great for me.
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