[OT] Email address. Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?

[Jani tiainen]

Jani tiainen wrote:

> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> 
>> So do it once that way to get the installed packages and then run it 
>> again
>> to get the uninstalled packages.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:43:21PM +0200, electa wrote:
>>
>>> it selects only my installed packs,  but not the other. i want all 
>>> for my
>>> cygwin-CD!
>>>
>>> "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna@efn.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
>>
>>
>>
>>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Please feed the spammers my email address; it can only be a drop in the
>> bucket over the 10-30 Mb/day I get now.  :)
> 
> 
> Everyone who writes on a mailinglist that will be archived on net in 
> very searchable way shouldn't expose real e-mail address.
> 
> This is like leaving your door unlocked while leaving your house/apartment.

Err, and do you really think that spam-mail-address gatherers are so 
stupid that they can't extract mail from <somename at somewhere dot com> 
format..? That's trivial regexp, and so what if there is few bogus 
adresses..? They mail to millons of addresses so few boguses that 
program extracting addresses might create doesn't matter anyway.

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Jani Tiainen

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