From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 808 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2011 00:10:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 749 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Oct 2011 00:10:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f41.google.com) (74.125.82.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:09:45 +0000 Received: by wwe32 with SMTP id 32so4144779wwe.2 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.171.3 with SMTP id f3mr1560514wbz.100.1318982982986; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.99] (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x40sm292177wbn.19.2011.10.18.17.09.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9E1536.4090704@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:10:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The TL and DR Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Proposal to cygwin.com References: <6840379252664234145558@Fresh03-PC> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A311FAEC3@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A311FAEC3@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q4/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 On 18/10/2011 14:30, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Jon Clugston sent the following at Monday, October 17, 2011 7:30 PM >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Abigail Cox >> wrote: >>> My name is Abigail Cox and I was wondering if you are interested in >>> exchange links, I'll place your link on my sites exactly here: >> What the hell are these e-mails? > > I think that some web search engines* rank sites based on how many links to > a page are on other web sites. Exchanging links would move one up the > results page. > > * I believe that Google's original algorithm was based on that - I don't > know what they do now. > > - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. > > TL;DR: they are spam. cheers, DaveK --