Re: Proposal to cygwin.com

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:14:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:09:26AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 18/10/2011 14:30, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>> Jon Clugston sent the following at Monday, October 17, 2011 7:30 PM
>>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Abigail Cox
>>>> <abigail.cox333@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> My name is Abigail Cox and I was wondering if you are interested in
>>>>> exchange links, I'll place your link on my sites exactly here:
>>>> What the hell are these e-mails?
>>> 
>>> I think that some web search engines* rank sites based on how many links to
>>> a page are on other web sites.  Exchanging links would move one up the
>>> results page.
>>> 
>>> * I believe that Google's original algorithm was based on that - I don't
>>> know what they do now.
>>> 
>>> - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>  TL;DR: they are spam.
>>
>>    cheers,
>>      DaveK
>>[snip]
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>
>DaveK,
>Don't you know our rule about not quoting people's email address in the
>body of the email message?  It's considered to be rude.  I'm surprised
>you didn't know about it.

How embarrassing.  I did it myself!

cgf