Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/10/13:29:00
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:03:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:13:14AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:37:29AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>>Well, not to step on anyone's toes here, but I, for one, think that the
>>>>spam filter needs to be reconfigured. I tried sending the screen
>>>>announcement ( http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00419.html )
>>>>SEVEN times yesterday, until it finally got through the spam filter,
>>>>with much cutting and rephrasing. Adding more rules to the spam filter
>>>>will only increase the likelihood of rejecting legitimate postings.
>>>
>>>Out of curiousity, how many times are you going to complain about this?
>>
>>Only the two you saw - once in the announcement (sorry, I was
>>frustrated), and the second time here (it seemed relevant).
>
>I'll state it again: If you are subscribed to the mailing list you do
>not get blocked. You can also subscribe to cygwin-allow to post without
>getting mailing list messages sent to you.
>
>[Now here's the place where someone has a great suggestion on how to
>improve the spam software or add documentation somewhere]
Btw, you were right. It wasn't the attachment. It was the string
"make<whitespace>$" as in "make $$$" that was hitting the spam blocker.
cgf
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