On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Jason Dufair wrote: >>Randall R Schulz wrote: >>>By the way, what is this business of putting individuals' names into a >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] email address? I think that's a pretty questionable >>>tactic. I doubt Chris Faylor equates himself with the Cygwin project >>>no matter how much of his professional effort is devoted to it. >>>Similarly, putting a user's name into the Cygwin mailing list address >>>hardly seems appropriate. >> >>FWIW, this may be a Mozilla artifact. Mozilla collects addresses from >>mail you read, and somehow I've managed to also get Christopher's name >>associated with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my address book.
nope, not an mozilla artifact. > Yeah, look at my From above. I do this fairly regularly to thwart > people who subvert the Reply-To. > So, it's no surprise to see my name associated with a cygwin at > cygwin.com in a To:. I certainly am not offended by it in any way. I understand why you do this, but, I kind of wish you didn't. I use bbdb in XEmacs to track email addresses. bbdb broke badly when it associated [EMAIL PROTECTED] with both you and corinna. I wound up having to create a fake record "Christopher/Corinna Faylor/Vinshen" with email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to get around the problem. -jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
