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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:09:51 -0600
From: Gregory Borota <cygwin AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How to retrieve old messages, index, etc.
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It works!

You are a nice guy. Thanks a lot,
Grigori

You wrote on 3/3/2004 2:59 PM:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From the mail one gets when subscribing to this list:
>>>
>>>To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail:
>>>    <cygwin-get DOT 123_145 AT cygwin DOT com>
>>>
>>>To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail:
>>>    <cygwin-index DOT 123_456 AT cygwin DOT com>
>>>
>>>They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request,
>>>so you'll actually get 100-499.
>>>
>>>To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345,
>>>send an empty message to:
>>>    <cygwin-thread DOT 12345 AT cygwin DOT com>
>>>
>>>I am new to mail list stuff, so please forgive me if I am annoying.
>>>Does the above ever work for this list? If yes how?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Greg
>>
>>It works.  You need to know the exact message numbers, however.  For
>>example, your message (the one I'm replying to) was number 89194 (from the
>>"Return-Path:" header).  So, to get a copy of your message, you'd send
>>e-mail to <cygwin-get.82194 at cygwin dot com>.  Try it...
> 
>                         ^^^^^
> Ahem.  s/2/9/.  Damn those typos...
> 	Igor
> 
> 
>>        Igor
>>P.S. The "Raw text" link in the list archives is your friend. ;-)
> 
> 

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