Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (was: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:47:31AM +0100, Valster Nico-anv009 wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Igor Peshansky 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:42 PM
>> To: Valster Nico-anv009
>> Cc: mwoehlke; cygwin@XXXXXXXXXXXXX
>> Subject: RE: Re: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES
>> 
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Valster Nico-anv009 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
>> 
>
>I got above reply, which leads to:
>Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your
>Replies. Some mailers include the raw e-mail address in the "Joe
><joe@example.com> wrote:" line. The web archives for the mailing lists
>are publicly available. Let's not feed the spam harvesters! (Some people
>express doubt that munging addresses actually works, but a spam report
>from CDT.org shows that spam harvesters often don't bother decoding even
>the simplest anti-spam measures such as replacing "@" with "AT" and "."
>with "DOT").
>Of course, there may be other raw e-mail addresses in messages, e.g., in
>signatures, but that's the choice of the person sending the message
>
>I would happily follow the suggestion, but the MS Outlook help, directs
>me to Tools/Options/Preferences/Email options.
>I do not see anything there that selectively manipulates quoted
>addresses. Is the idea that I manually remove the address from the
>quote. Not that I mind, but it seems prone to being forgotten once in a
>while

Like just this very time, for instance.  There is no need to continually
feed the spammers the cygwin mailing list or, worse, the cygwin-owner email
address any more than there is a reason to include personal email addresses.

cgf

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