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Re: [htdocs PATCH] Ping Igor! [was RE: Rebase All command.....]


On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:10:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 28 April 2005 04:40
>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:36:07PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>> On 4/27/05, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>>> It occurs to me that a lot of people don't know how to PCYM* if it
>>>>>> doesn't already support such functionality, so I suddenly thought we
>>>>>> should add another couple of lines to the OLOCA entry mentioning
>>>>>> quotefix.  Igor?
>>>> 
>>>>   Good point.  It would be better as a FAQ entry, perhaps.
>>> 
>>> I'm afraid I have a similar philosophy about the FAQ; that's really not a
>>> question specific to Cygwin.
>> 
>>So, just to close the loop, the place where this should probably go is
>>to the overseers list with a suggested change for the sourceware
>>mailing list FAQ at http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq .
>
>Well, I'm not going to suggest it there myself, because PCYM....  is an
>entirely cygwin-list-specific thing.  (I've noticed we have very
>different etiquette here from the remaining sourceware lists, all of
>which are much keener on quoting people's email addresses and indeed on
>Cc'ing everyone in the thread personally rather than keeping it to the
>lists and PCYMing.)

That's just bad manners and laziness, however.  Every so often the
mailing list software bounces a message because people have included
everyone in a gcc thread plus the gcc mailing list itself in their
replies and they trip an "excess number of senders" spam rule.  Also,
you will occasionally see "Don't cc me" in any of the other active
lists.  I actually complained about quoting email once in the gdb list,
myself.

In any event, I wouldn't have suggested it if I didn't think that it
would receive some consideration in the overseers list.  It has come
up there before, IIRC.

cgf

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