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RE: cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 download


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 20 March 2006 17:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> On 20 March 2006 16:58, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>
> >>> Or, you could read the unsubscription instructions at the end of every
> >>> message sent by the list manager program and/or at
> >>> <http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe> and/or in the
> >>> Mailing List FAQ at <http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple>.
> >>
> >>   To be fair, those instructions only exist for posts on the main
> >> mailing list!  Maybe we should sort out a message footer for this list
> >> as well.  Only with links to pictures of hippos and stuff instead of
> >> documentation or problem reporting guidelines?
> >
> > Huh?  Pine shows me the following at the end of every message from *this*
> > list:
> >
> >     [ Note: This message contains email list management information ]
> >
> > where "email list management information" is a hyperlink to the list of
> > mailing list commands, one of which is "Select HERE to UNsubscribe.".
>
>   It's interpreting the List-Xxxxx: headers and serving them up to you
> in a cooked format.  There's nothing visible in the message body.

Yep, I'm aware of that.

> Pine is doing a microsoft - trying to be too clever in protecting you
> from scary-scary technical computer stuff like 'headers' by giving you a
> point-and-drool interface that only succeeds in giving you false and
> misleading information about the actual content of whatever you've been
> sent.  Sheesh, I know we want OSS to come across all professional and
> that, but that's taking it too far!

Heh, any complaints should be taken up with UWash.

> > I don't know how these show up in other mailers, though...
> > 	Igor
>
>   Since there's no way to specify hyperlinks to collapsed/folded text in
> plaintext emails, you could perhaps have deduced that what you were
> seeing had to be an artifact or artificial construct of some sort....
> don't you look at raw message format all that often?

Oh, I've figured out that it was using the List-* headers, all right.  I
was thinking that if Pine is doing it, other mailers that purport to be
more "user-friendly" (whatever that means) would do something similar.
But hey, I don't use'em, so I'm just guessing.
	Igor
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