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On 03/27/2014 18:26, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:43:24 +0000 |
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> "Steven J. Long" wrote: |
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>> it's still rude of you to constantly quote people's email addresses |
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> Why is it rude? There are a lot of other developers on the list here |
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> that do this as well; so, if you want to see this changed then please |
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> bring it up for a vote. Un-CC-ed and stripped this time per request; |
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> being able to set this on a specific person, however, I don't see how |
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> to do that in my mailing client. Patches to do as such are welcome. |
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I think this is more a function of the mail client, not individual people's |
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preferences. I could've swore that Thunderbird, would use the following format: |
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"On <DATE> <TIME>, <NAME> <<EMAIL>> wrote:" |
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But now, it looks like Thunderbird drops the <<EMAIL>> portion. Must've |
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been a change in 17.x? |
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IMHO, trying to hide one's e-mail, especially on a rather large, well-known, |
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open-source project is an exercise in futility. I quote mine in my sig at |
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the bottom, it's in my PGP key, stored in the Changelogs I've touched over |
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the last decade, probably still in a few of the documentation pages on the |
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Gentoo website, and easily derivable from my known username and the Gentoo |
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domain name. |
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So, whatever floats people's shredded wheat, but I wouldn't worry about it. |
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If a spambot really wants your e-mail, it's going to find it and send you |
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free medical prescriptions or inform you of lost rich relatives in Nigeria, |
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whether you like it or not. If blame has to be assigned, blame the |
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underlying protocol(s). The fact that 21st century global business runs on |
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top of antiquated, ASCII-based, non-secure protocols developed in the 1970's |
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simply floors me. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |