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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:46:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Quick question
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Jason Dufair wrote:
>Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>By the way, what is this business of putting individuals' names into a
>>cygwin AT cygwin DOT com email address?  I think that's a pretty questionable
>>tactic.  I doubt Chris Faylor equates himself with the Cygwin project
>>no matter how much of his professional effort is devoted to it.
>>Similarly, putting a user's name into the Cygwin mailing list address
>>hardly seems appropriate.
>
>FWIW, this may be a Mozilla artifact.  Mozilla collects addresses from
>mail you read, and somehow I've managed to also get Christopher's name
>associated with cygwin AT cygwin DOT com in my address book.

Yeah, look at my From above.  I do this fairly regularly to thwart
people who subvert the Reply-To.

So, it's no surprise to see my name associated with a cygwin at
cygwin.com in a To:.  I certainly am not offended by it in any way.

cgf

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