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Re: "net use" (and "net config")


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Matthew Woehlke wrote:
| Grant Edwards wrote:
|>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
|>
|> I'm not useing a "Mailer", and I don't send "Replies".
|> I use a news reader and post followups via gmane (a publically
|> accessible NNTP server).  Your email address is in the post in
|> the clear, so I don't see how my not quoting it is going to
|> make any difference, but I'll not do it in the future.
|
| While it's true gmane.os.cygwin's nntp shows addresses "in the raw", the
| web interface does not, and apparently we aren't concerned about people
| snarfing from nntp servers (at least, not yet).
|
| However, your newsreader is still dropping the address into the body of
| your replies, at which point it gets propagated to umpteen web archives
| where it *is* "in the raw", which we don't like. So, I'll reiterate:
| PCYNTNQREAIYR (s/mailer/newsreader). Er, and... it's still a "reply" on
| nntp.
|
| (Cygwin folks, OLOCA maintainer a.k.a. Igor especially: maybe we should
| add "-slash-newsreader" to PCYMTNQREAIYR?)
|

*sip*

BTW, He needs to use a proper newsreader if it is quoting email
addresses.  Something like Thunderbird...

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