Souldn't we put [Cygwin] or [CygXwin] here depending on the question?

[Michel Bardiaux]

Dave Korn wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David
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>>I got mails from both two groups:cygwin, and cygXwin.
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>   Well, that's because you're on two completely different mailing lists.
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>>It's sometimes confusing.
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>   You're very easily confused then.  Why don't you set up your mailer to
> sort them into different folders?
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>>Don't we need to seperate one from the other by putting
>>a head into Subject, for example, [cygwin] vs. [cygXwin]?
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>   What on earth is the use of putting a tag in the subject line when it only
> pointlessly duplicates information that is already in the From/To lines:
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>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of .....

Unfortunately, cygwin-xfree is congured in such a way that the FROM is 
the Original Poster, it's the REPLYTO that is cygwin. That makes it 
rather awkward to setup filter rules based on the FROM!

The vast majority of mailing lists on RH and SF use a [listname] prefix.

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> and when there's presumably many people who are only on one list.
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>   You could always just learn how to set up mail-sorting rules in your email
> program, rather than expect everyone else to suddenly start doing things
> your way just to save you the five minutes of effort it would take you to
> sort your own problem out.
> 
>     cheers, 
>       DaveK


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