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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:06:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Miller <mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Posting problems
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> A message of mine was rejected today and I received the "failure 
>> notice" below.  There was nothing wrong with my message and there was 
>> no obvious reason for it to have been rejected.
>
> Um, did you try actually reading what the bounce said?
>
>> Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your
>> subject.  This is probably due to an off-topic post.
>> ...
>> Subject: xterm and rxvt titles and icon names
>
> There is a mailing list for X11-related topics.  It's cygwin-xfree <at> 
> cygwin.com.  It's off-topic for cygwin <at> cygwin.com.
>
> As to the other problems: Attachments are fine.  HTML email though is 
> forbidden.  The reason for the rejection will be stated in the bounce.


Um, yes, of course I read what it said.

If you don't want to confuse people, and your mailer rejects messages 
about xterm and rxvt because it wants them to to go cygwin-xfree, then why 
not tell the sender that their message seems more appropriate for 
cygwin-xfree?  I think to say that it is "off topic" is not very helpful 
-- it certainly looked like a mistake to me because my message was about 
cygwin.

In cygwin, rxvt works without X11 and I have the same problem with rxvt 
without X11 as I have with X11.  I think it is quite a stretch to call a 
question about rxvt on cygwin "off topic" on this cygwin@cygwin list!!

Mike

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