Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/13/10:19:24
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:16:23PM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>--- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
>[SNIP]
>>Yep, it is. Apparently the ISP who provides IP connectivity for
>>sourceware somehow had something to do with some spammer or something.
>>That plus the fact that they consider Red Hat to have spammed at one
>>point means that sources.redhat.com is on their list.
>
>Either that or they haven't left the building in 7 years. What kind of
>idiot wouldn't *know* who RedHat is? Maybe they're from another planet
>or something... It could also be those darn *BSD heads or some fringe
>anti-RedHat faction that thinks RedHat is the next Microsoft...
I got the feeling that there were some "issues" there that I didn't
want to get into. Maybe some anti-Red Hat feelings.
>>They were quite rude to my polite requests to be removed from their
>>list, too. I certainly wouldn't recommend using that service.
>
>You should have given them one of your famous lectures on how wrong
>they were! Damn Spam-Nazis!
I'd have to lecture myself, if so. They have every right to block
anyone they want to. While their attitude was really irritating, they
have a right to that, too.
I have an equal right to tell everyone not to use their service and I'm
actually pretty sure that they would agree with that.
Not that I didn't start and discard several indignant responses to the
their email, of course. :-)
It's actually nice to finally be able to say "Don't use it!" as I vowed
I'd do if the issue ever came up.
cgf
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