RE: PCYMTNQREAIYR (was: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES)

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:

> Valster Nico-anv009 wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Igor Peshansky
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:42 PM
> >> To: Valster Nico-anv009
> >> Cc: mwoehlke; cygwin at cygwin.com
> >> Subject: RE: Re: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES
> >>
> >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Valster Nico-anv009 wrote:
> >>
> >> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
> >
> > I got above reply, which leads to:
> > Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In
> > Your Replies. Some mailers include the raw e-mail address in the "Joe
> > <joe@example.com> wrote:" line. The web archives for the mailing
> > lists are publicly available. Let's not feed the spam harvesters!
> > (Some people express doubt that munging addresses actually works, but
> > a spam report from CDT.org shows that spam harvesters often don't
> > bother decoding even the simplest anti-spam measures such as
> > replacing "@" with "AT" and "." with "DOT").
> > Of course, there may be other raw e-mail addresses in messages, e.g.,
> > in signatures, but that's the choice of the person sending the
> > message
> >
> > I would happily follow the suggestion, but the MS Outlook help,
> > directs me to Tools/Options/Preferences/Email options.
> > I do not see anything there that selectively manipulates quoted
> > addresses. Is the idea that I manually remove the address from the
> > quote. Not that I mind, but it seems prone to being forgotten once in
> > a while
>
> Outlook QuoteFix is what I use.
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
> I load it when replying to cygwin and get rid of it afterwards.  No big
> deal.
>
> And there is OE-QuoteFix for Outlook Express
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
>
> And to not take credit from others, see the archives:
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=quotefix&cmd=Search%21&form=e
> xtended&m=all&ps=50&fmt=long&wm=wrd&sp=1&sy=1&wf=2221&type=&GroupBySite=
> no&ul=%2Fml%2Fcygwin%2F%25
>
> Maybe this should be a FAQ or added to the explanation of the
> PCYMTNQREAIYR acronym.

I don't see why, since Googling for "PCYMTNQREAIYR Outlook" turns up the
pointers that you quoted above.
	Igor
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