On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote: > From the mail one gets when subscribing to this list: > > To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request, > so you'll actually get 100-499. > > To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345, > send an empty message to: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am new to mail list stuff, so please forgive me if I am annoying. > Does the above ever work for this list? If yes how? > > Thanks, > Greg
It works. You need to know the exact message numbers, however. For example, your message (the one I'm replying to) was number 89194 (from the "Return-Path:" header). So, to get a copy of your message, you'd send e-mail to <cygwin-get.82194 at cygwin dot com>. Try it... Igor P.S. The "Raw text" link in the list archives is your friend. ;-) -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/