Bash initialization w/cygwin-1.7

[Dave Korn]

Jerry DeLisle wrote:

> Well, I am moving to this thread now.  

  Jerry, can I show you something you must not have realised about how email
threading works?

  When you hit "Reply" to an existing post, your mailer adds "In-Reply-To:"
and/or "References:" headers to your reply, so that other mailers can display
the replies in a threaded display.  If you are in the habit of replying to an
existing post to save typing the list address into the "From:" line, all your
posts really will be indexed and displayed as replies to the posts you reply
to.  Changing the subject line doesn't help.

  So for example your initial post wasn't exactly easy to spot, being as it
was tagged on the end of a thread that had been dead for a month:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9559/jerrypost1.png

  Likewise, where you say above "I am moving to this thread now", you have in
fact done nothing of the sort:

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4305/jerrypost2.png

  If you want to save some typing, you need to use your mailer's address book
or autocompletion features.  Not randomly replying to existing posts.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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