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RE: FW: tetex 2.99
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:44:16 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: FW: tetex 2.99
- References: <NUTMEG3ednHM3SOlbpH00001180@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: 17 January 2005 17:55
>
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:08:54PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> > >I nominate the appended post for 'Non-sequitur of the week', or
> > >possibly even the year!
> >
> > You saw the threading, right?
>
> Naww. I use a non-threaded view. Sutbleties like that go flying
> right over my head until I happen to drop in on the web archive and
> chase the follow-up links.
>
> > The poster did the old "I don't know how
> > to send email to the cygwin list, so I'll just respond to this message
> > and change the subject trick."
>
> Awww, *that* old one. Must have saved him at least half-a-dozen
> keypresses, though.
>
> Say, you could probably whip up a spamfilter to detect when someone
> changes the subject in a thread and bounce their post. Now that _would_
> be mean!
Surely you meant "detect when someone changes the subject in a thread and
bounce their post *unless* they have an X-I-meant-to-do-that: header in
their message"? :-)
Igor
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