[PATCH 21.5] Starting XEmacs 21.5 via cygwin's run command

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Vin Shelton: 

 > Hi Adrian,
 > 
 > On 8/21/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
 > > "Vin Shelton" <acs at xemacs.org> writes:
 > >
 > > > Adrian - I added a pointer to the gmane permalink.
 > >
 > > Hi Vin, I'm concerned about mail archive URLs as the only reference.
 > >
 > > As we saw with tux.org, the can go up in smoke and then we have nothing.
 > >
 > > If the original message-id is put in as a reference, then every one of
 > > us with a large history of email can recover it.
 > >
 > > M-x gnus-article-refer-article
 > >  works slowly but surely.
 > >
 > > Oh, I think the original message-id can not be found via
 > > http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2006-November/000041.html
 > 
 > The fact that you can't search by message-id reduces the utility of
 > some email archives [and message-ids :-) ].  I think that gmane is
 > relatively permanent and the http link is much more generally useful
 > than a message-id. 

http://mid.gmane.org/<message id here> has the advantages of both, in that
if Gmane is not available (which is occasionally the case) you have an
identifier with which to search your local archives. For the message
referred to in the patch, the relevant mid.gmane.org link is:

http://mid.gmane.org/20a807210708181345m7ac94ff2m43337be71e853d95@mail.gmail.com

 > Remember that some people will not have the extensive personal email
 > archives that we do. (In fact, I often post from my gmail account, where
 > my email history is less extensive than my home machine, so even those of
 > us with extensive email archives do not always have access to those
 > archives.)
 > 
 > Personally, I think using a gmane permalink is sufficiently permanent
 > to preserve the thread, but I'm willing to change my patch if other
 > people agree with you.

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