This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Small request...
- To: "jimen at adtech-inc dot com" <jimen at adtech-inc dot com>
- Subject: Re: Small request...
- From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p dot dalgaard at biostat dot ku dot dk>
- Date: 15 Apr 1998 16:33:15 +0200
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <01BD67B4.0A57C3A0.jimen@adtech-inc.com>
Jimen Ching <jimen@adtech-inc.com> writes:
> I see many people opposing these requests, but I have yet to see a good
> reason why it shouldn't be done. Just because there are alternatives doesn't
> mean it is a bad idea. Second of all, filtering on 'Sender', 'To' and/or
> 'CC' doesn't always work because some people use aliases for the mailing
> list address. If you filter gnu-win32@cygnus.com, you will miss these
> messages. Adding a keyword in the subject line in all messages distributed
> by the mailing list will guarantee that the filter will trap it.
>
> Why is it bad to 'bung up' the subject line? What's so special about a
> subject line that you shouldn't 'bung it up'?
Point one:
("mail.gnuwin32" "^Return-Path: <.*gnu-win32.*@cygnus.com>")
has filtered all list traffic correctly for months. And the wildcards
haven't been necessary since last September. (It switched from
gnu-win-owner32 to owner-gnu-win32 at that point in time).
Point two:
Several mail agents use a layout like the following
! [ 62: Jan-Jaap van der Hei] Re: [ANNOUNCE] mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 based toolcha
Now imagine what happens if the subject line starts with
[GNUWIN32] Re: [GNUWIN32] Re: [GNUWIN32] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Humble mumble
All we'll see is
[GNUWIN32] Re: [GNUWIN32] Re: [GNUWIN32] Re:
--
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3
c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".