Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/10/17/14:43:47
At 02:26 PM 10/17/2000, John Wiersba wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:05:40PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote:
> > > 6) Could you put some marker on the emails from the cygwin
> > > mailing list, so
> > > they are easily identifiable from an email client? Like
> > > putting the list
> > > name as the first name in the To: line or putting [cygwin]
> > > on the subject
> > > line?
> >
> > No. This will never, ever happen on my watch. I abhor these markers.
>
>Chris,
>
>How about some reasoning other than just "I abhor it"? You know, I was
>asking for a reason, not just to annoy you. :-) Maybe there's some
>compromise which would serve my needs and others' without causing you the
>willies. For example:
>
>How about forcing the list name in the "To:" line so the emails could be
>recognized by a simple scan of the left side of the "To" field? I don't see
>how you could abhor that.
>
>-- John
Why would you need that? The cygwin email address is always going to be
in either the "To:" or "Cc:" fields at least. Can't you just check both
of these?
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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