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Re: Souldn't we put [Cygwin] or [CygXwin] here depending on thequestion?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:35:46 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Souldn't we put [Cygwin] or [CygXwin] here depending on thequestion?
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David
> >
> >>I got mails from both two groups:cygwin, and cygXwin.
> >
> > Well, that's because you're on two completely different mailing lists.
> >
> >>It's sometimes confusing.
> >
> > You're very easily confused then. Why don't you set up your mailer to
> > sort them into different folders?
> >
> >>Don't we need to seperate one from the other by putting
> >>a head into Subject, for example, [cygwin] vs. [cygXwin]?
> >
> > What on earth is the use of putting a tag in the subject line when it only
> > pointlessly duplicates information that is already in the From/To lines:
> >
> >>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of .....
>
> Unfortunately, cygwin-xfree is congured in such a way that the FROM is
> the Original Poster, it's the REPLYTO that is cygwin. That makes it
> rather awkward to setup filter rules based on the FROM!
Michel,
Here are some of the available headers from your message:
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>List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
>List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-xfree-help at cygwin dot com>, <http://sources dot redhat dot com/ml/#faqs>
>Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin dot com
>Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Take your pick. :-)
Igor
P.S. These are from the web version, so some may not be available...
> The vast majority of mailing lists on RH and SF use a [listname] prefix.
>
> > and when there's presumably many people who are only on one list.
> >
> > You could always just learn how to set up mail-sorting rules in your email
> > program, rather than expect everyone else to suddenly start doing things
> > your way just to save you the five minutes of effort it would take you to
> > sort your own problem out.
> >
> > cheers,
> > DaveK
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