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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:02:51 -0400
To: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: bugs in zip and bash
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In-Reply-To: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F56E@aa-msg-01.medstat.com>; from John.Wiersba@medstat.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:26:28PM -0400

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:26:28PM -0400, 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"?

I answered this in my original email.  There is no need to add a tag
when you can do filtering on the header.

>You know, I was asking for a reason, not just to annoy you.  :-)

Well, the fact that I and others abhor the tags and that it is easy to
filter on the headers seems like an adequate reason.

>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.

How about investigating the available alternatives yourself?  Your mail
agent can filter and we provide tags specifically for this reason.

cgf

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