Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:12:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Revamped spam blocking for this mailing list Message-ID: <20020317211242.GA28486@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020317192306 DOT GA28054 AT redhat DOT com> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020317113217 DOT 024118a8 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020317113217.024118a8@pop3.cris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:37:28AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >This is just my personal opinion, obviously, but there wasn't enough >spam getting through of late to seem to justify messing with a working >system. > >The truth? I've been blocked inappropriately in the past, on this list >and others, and it is pretty much at the top of my list of pet peeves! >Perhaps it's part of the American psyche, but I become almost >apoplectic when I'm muzzled in any way! Yep. I don't know if this is "American" or not but it certainly is a wonderful illustration of a typical clueless sense of entitlement coupled with a usual "I don't know any of the facts but I have an opinion anyway" attitude. >The other truth? I'm writing this to see if I'm going to get blocked >under the new scheme or software you've instituted. Better on this >low-content message than on one I really want to be read. And, if you had been blocked what do you think would have happened? I asked people to send email to postmaster AT cygwin DOT com. If you had sent email to that address, I would have read the email and worked on the problem. I'm sitting here now actively scanning the mailing list queues so that I will be aware of any problems as they occur. The bottom line still holds. If you're subscribed to the mailing list you can post. If you are not subscribed and are blocked by one of sourceware's RBL checkers (which also have not changed), then you get specific instructions for unblocking yourself in the bounce message. If you don't understand this, then check out the appropriate page at sources.redhat.com which describe how blocking occurs. Again, if it seems like the rules aren't being followed, then send mail to postmaster AT cygwin DOT com and I'll look into it. And, if you feel yourself becoming apoplectic about any of this, then please send some nice venting email to all of the mailing lists that you are personally running in the proper way. You can rest assured that your apoplectic wisdom will be lost on me if you send it here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/