Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:09:07 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Advocacy In-Reply-To: <57efacfe61f532b5480f77a8331a7f26@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote: > On 03 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > P.S. Note that we don't want to use "-- " as the separator > > string, unless we want to filter out people's signatures as > > well. > > That sounds like an excellent idea to me, or maybe just snip > everything over 4 lines. Hmm, and here I am with my 8-line signature... Seriously, though, I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech. If people *want* to include 50-line disclaimers in their signature (and take the resulting abuse), I don't think we have the right to stop them. I was proposing a way for people to get rid of the annoying things required by company policy that they *don't* want in their messages (and currently have no way to remove). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/