From: N8TM@aol.com
To: pderbysh@usa.net, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <652e99b7.36b65f28@aol.com> (raw)
In a message dated 2/1/99 4:07:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, pderbysh@usa.net
writes:
<< all the guy has
to do who sees it is
1. Note "hmm, the damned address changed." which is what you want to remind
them.
2. Hit "reply".
3. Edit away the notice and prefix symbols on the requoted message.
4. Send. >>
Don't do this with Windoze-based e-mail systems, like the ones I'm using.
Mouse the whole text into a new message, or use the re-send in Groupwise.
I've annoyed too many people by forwarding bounced messages, which turn to
rubbish. Still, the point is well made, that we don't want to have to figure
out whether it was an important message which was bounced, or just a reply to
someone who doesn't care enough about the answer to his questions to un-block
his incoming e-mail.
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From: N8TM@aol.com
To: pderbysh@usa.net, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <652e99b7.36b65f28@aol.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228225300.NzWo0DIakFQTij3iqYjLihPB9eADbWoe_xDlwRe8mtk@z> (raw)
In a message dated 2/1/99 4:07:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, pderbysh@usa.net
writes:
<< all the guy has
to do who sees it is
1. Note "hmm, the damned address changed." which is what you want to remind
them.
2. Hit "reply".
3. Edit away the notice and prefix symbols on the requoted message.
4. Send. >>
Don't do this with Windoze-based e-mail systems, like the ones I'm using.
Mouse the whole text into a new message, or use the re-send in Groupwise.
I've annoyed too many people by forwarding bounced messages, which turn to
rubbish. Still, the point is well made, that we don't want to have to figure
out whether it was an important message which was bounced, or just a reply to
someone who doesn't care enough about the answer to his questions to un-block
his incoming e-mail.
next reply other threads:[~1999-02-01 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-01 18:36 N8TM [this message]
1999-02-28 22:53 ` N8TM
[not found] <652e99b7.36b65f28.cygnus.egcs@aol.com>
1999-02-02 17:12 ` Jason Merrill
[not found] ` < u990eguw7p.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com >
1999-02-04 7:56 ` Gerald Pfeifer
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Gerald Pfeifer
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jason Merrill
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-01-31 22:51 Paul Derbyshire
1999-01-31 23:03 ` CaT
1999-01-31 23:50 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-01-31 22:09 Paul Derbyshire
1999-01-31 22:14 ` CaT
1999-01-31 22:24 ` Bob McWhirter
1999-01-31 22:50 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-01 2:01 ` Franz Sirl
[not found] ` < 4.1.19990201105045.054320e0@mail.lauterbach.com >
1999-02-01 15:53 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Franz Sirl
1999-01-31 23:12 ` Ken Raeburn
1999-02-01 7:13 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-01 7:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
[not found] ` < or4sp6b12f.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br >
1999-02-01 7:30 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-01 7:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
[not found] ` < or1zkab0ou.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br >
1999-02-01 7:50 ` Jeffrey A Law
[not found] ` < 3391.917883892@hurl.cygnus.com >
1999-02-01 8:23 ` Joe Buck
[not found] ` < 199902011621.IAA00385@atrus.synopsys.com >
1999-02-01 8:24 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-01 16:03 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Joe Buck
1999-02-28 22:53 ` postmaster
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-01 15:58 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-01 7:59 ` Ken Raeburn
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Ken Raeburn
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-13 10:47 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
[not found] ` <19990201200631.A227@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
1999-02-01 15:31 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Paul Derbyshire
1999-02-03 12:05 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
[not found] <Jeffrey>
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