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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:48:18 -0400
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> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:17:52 +0100
> 
> On 17 August 2006 10:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:35:51 +0200
> >> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu>
> 
>   Eli, we have a tradition of snipping email addys on this list:
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR if you could please!

This is really a PITA!  I reply to dozens of messages each day, and
cannot afford editing the standard decorations of each mail.  What you
see is the default way Rmail in Emacs quotes messages; if that's
deemed inappropriate (I must admit it's the first time in 15 years I'm
asked to do this), please someone submit a change to the Emacs
developers' list to modify this behavior.

Alternatively, why cannot your mail reflector convert them as it does
with the addresses in the headers?  I _hate_ to be a slave of
software.

>   Well, aren't there also quote a lot of Linux systems with ntfstools these
> days?  It's not even just a windows feature necessarily.

Yes, probably.  But the thing is, only on Windows we can confuse a
colon that is part of a file name with a drive letter and with a Make
delimiter.

>   But why on earth anyone would put a makefile in an ADS I couldn't imagine.

(Not only a Makefile, but _any_ file.)  That's my opinion as well,
which is why I said I didn't consider supporting this too important.
But users are a funny bunch: they always tend to need the most obscure
features...

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