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Avoiding the SPAM (was: Cygwin - KDE).
- From: <kevin dot lawton at bt dot com>
- To: <davidf at sjsoft dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:57:47 -0000
- Subject: Avoiding the SPAM (was: Cygwin - KDE).
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Thanks for your reply, David, looking forward to an interesting weekend checking it all out.
Sorry to add extra traffic to the list, but I feel I have to point out:
When you replied to me, you (or your e-mail client) echoed my e-mail address (and yours, and that of the mailing list) back in the message in plain text. This is the 'staff of life' for spam harvesters ! Any spammer lurking on the list will now have a couple more e-mail addresses to sell to the advertisers and porn-mongers of this world. Aaarrgh !
Please try to avoid returning e-mail addresses as text in the messages - probably best to 'munger' your address or snip out the server part. Some e-mail clients can be set to do this for you. At the very least, replace the '@' with something less obvious.
Please - I'm not trying to 'dictate terms' - hey, I've only just joined this list - but I would like to hope that everyone takes my point on board. These days, people are losing their jobs for receiving 'dodgy' e-mail adverts at work.
Kevin.
kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fraser <snip>
> Sent: 05 December 2003 10:41
> To: cygwin-xfree<snip>
> Cc: Lawton,K,Kevin,XJH3C C
> Subject: Re: Cygwin - KDE
>
> kevin.lawton<snip> wrote:
>
> >My apologies in advance if this is considered to be 'off
> topic' for this list.
> >I have heard rumour that it is possible to run the KDE
> desktop under Cygwin and wondered if anyone had any knowledge
> of this - experience or just a pointer to some details. Any
> help would be much appreciated.
> >TIA
> >Kevin.
> >P.S.: Please feel free to reply to me personally if you
> don't want to clutter the list up with traffic like this -
> at: kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com
> >
> kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net has all the details you need. it
> works great.
> they have a mailing list if you need any more help.
> replying to the list so everyone else knows they don't need
> to mail you.
> David
>
>