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Re: Avoiding the SPAM (was: Cygwin - KDE).


Hi Kevin

Sorry about that. If you set your mail client to show your name in the From address, it will usually get quoted using the name rather than the address

David

Kevin Lawton wrote:

Thanks for your reply, David, looking forward to an interesting weekend checking it all out. Sorry to add extra traffic to the list, but I feel I have to point out: When you replied to me, you (or your e-mail client) echoed my e-mail address (and yours, and that of the mailing list) back in the message in plain text. This is the 'staff of life' for spam harvesters ! Any spammer lurking on the list will now have a couple more e-mail addresses to sell to the advertisers and porn-mongers of this world. Aaarrgh ! Please try to avoid returning e-mail addresses as text in the messages - probably best to 'munger' your address or snip out the server part. Some e-mail clients can be set to do this for you. At the very least, replace the '@' with something less obvious. Please - I'm not trying to 'dictate terms' - hey, I've only just joined this list - but I would like to hope that everyone takes my point on board. These days, people are losing their jobs for receiving 'dodgy' e-mail adverts at work. Kevin. kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com

-----Original Message-----
From: David Fraser <snip> Sent: 05 December 2003 10:41
To: cygwin-xfree<snip>
Cc: Lawton,K,Kevin,XJH3C C
Subject: Re: Cygwin - KDE


kevin.lawton<snip> wrote:



My apologies in advance if this is considered to be 'off

topic' for this list.

I have heard rumour that it is possible to run the KDE

desktop under Cygwin and wondered if anyone had any knowledge of this - experience or just a pointer to some details. Any help would be much appreciated.

TIA
Kevin. P.S.: Please feel free to reply to me personally if you


don't want to clutter the list up with traffic like this - at: kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com



kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net has all the details you need. it works great. they have a mailing list if you need any more help.
replying to the list so everyone else knows they don't need to mail you.
David











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