RE: bugs in zip and bash

[John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>]

Well, from the fact that I'm using cygwin, one might guess that I'm trapped
at a Windows desktop running Outlook.  I don't filter (nor do I want to
filter) any of my email.  It all comes to my Inbox and I read it there.
When I'm done with it I move it to another folder, either Deleted Items (if
I want to pitch it) or to some other randomly selected folder if I want to
save it.  I can imagine that Outlook might have some feature that would
allow to automatically parcel my email out to various folders, but then I'd
have to 1) notice that some other folder had new mail in it and 2) switch to
that folder.  Ugh!

The "To" column in my Inbox is wide enough to show the first recipient (or
maybe two if they're really short), but I can't see the whole recipient
list.  Since I'm not filtering anything, just knowing that "cygwin" is
somewhere in the To: list doesn't help.  I don't even see the Cc: list at
all.

Other email groups I subscribe to do put some marker in the subject line so
that I can easily distinguish emails with a quick glance at the subject.
But since some find that abhorent, maybe just floating cygwin to the front
of the To: list would be sufficient to serve my purposes without making
things any uglier for others.

In any case, it was just a suggestion...

-- John Wiersba

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:38 PM
> To: John Wiersba; 'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: bugs in zip and bash
> 
> 
> At 02:26 PM 10/17/2000, John Wiersba wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
> > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:05:40PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote:
> > > > 6) Could you put some marker on the emails from the cygwin 
> > > > mailing list, so
> > > > they are easily identifiable from an email client?  Like 
> > > > putting the list
> > > > name as the first name in the To: line or putting [cygwin] 
> > > > on the subject
> > > > line?
> > > 
> > > No.  This will never, ever happen on my watch.  I abhor 
> these markers.
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >How about some reasoning other than just "I abhor it"?  You 
> know, I was
> >asking for a reason, not just to annoy you. :-)  Maybe there's some
> >compromise which would serve my needs and others' without 
> causing you the
> >willies.  For example:
> >
> >How about forcing the list name in the "To:" line so the 
> emails could be
> >recognized by a simple scan of the left side of the "To" 
> field?  I don't see
> >how you could abhor that.
> >
> >-- John
> 
> 
> 
> Why would you need that?  The cygwin email address is always 
> going to be 
> in either the "To:" or "Cc:" fields at least.  Can't you just 
> check both
> of these?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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> 

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