From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10624 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2011 01:48:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 10609 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Oct 2011 01:48:54 -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,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-wy0-f171.google.com) (74.125.82.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:48:38 +0000 Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so2191365wyi.2 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.13.135 with SMTP id c7mr3382577wba.84.1319075317522; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:48:37 -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 i21sm9319828wbn.8.2011.10.19.18.48.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9F7DE4.2020408@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:48:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "The ... - woah, deja vu! Maiming lits" Subject: Re: Proposal to cygwin.com References: <6840379252664234145558@Fresh03-PC> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A311FAEC3@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4E9E1536.4090704@gmail.com> <20111019001448.GC20247@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20111019001639.GA23032@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20111019001639.GA23032@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> 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/msg00019.txt.bz2 On 19/10/2011 01:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:14:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:09:26AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>> 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 >>> [snip] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> DaveK, >> Don't you know our rule about not quoting people's email address in the >> body of the email message? It's considered to be rude. I'm surprised >> you didn't know about it. > > How embarrassing. I did it myself! > > cgf Oh, I do apologise. Do you mean I shouldn't have said: > > > > > > > > > in my original post? I just wanted to confirm that saying: > > > > > > > > > would not be the right thing to do. cheers, DaveK