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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:19:18 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] Revamped spam blocking for this mailing list (clarification)
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Two things, I guess I have to make clear:

1) I do not anticipate any changes in spam blocking that will impact normal
   posting.  If you were posting without problem before, you should be able
   to post without problem now.

2) I was not asking everyone in this mailing list to send a test message
   to see if they can still get through.  Please just post as normal, and
   send email as outlined below if you think you were inappropriately blocked.

   "Inappropriately blocked" does not mean that you *got* a bounce message.
   "Inappropriately blocked" means your message never got through after an
   adequate waiting period or you received a bounce message which provides
   inaccurate information, e.g., the message says your are blocked by an RBL
   service when you really aren't.

Go to http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html/#rbl-sucks for information on
our current spam-blocking policies.  I will update this page as I add
new features to the new software.

FWIW, the goal here is to impact the spammers, not the people sending
email to the cygwin mailing lists.

cgf

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:23:06PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I've just crossed my fingers and set up the cygwin and cygwin-apps
>mailing lists to use some revamped spam blocking software that I've
>written for sources.redhat.com.
>
>I won't go into details of what is new because I'm still working on
>things.  Basically, for now, I have revamped stuff to make it easier to
>customize in the future.  However, I wanted to let people know about
>this for the not-too-unlikely case of problems occurring where mail is
>blocked inappropriately.
>
>I've already seen some email from Robert Collins stall and I've fixed
>that.  I have also seen an inexplicable blocking of email from the gmane
>newsgroups that I didn't have enough debugging output to understand.
>
>So, if you do see any irregularity with the mailing list please send
>email to postmaster AT cygwin DOT com.  DO NOT send me personal email about
>this.
>
>An irregularity would be email that is blocked when you don't think
>it should be or email that doesn't show up after two hours without
>any indication that it has been blocked.
>
>Remember, if you get a bounce message, please READ IT and try to
>COMPREHEND IT before sending email.  Most of the messages that we get at
>postmaster AT cygwin DOT com are from people who haven't bothered to actually
>read the words in the bounce messages.  I've gotten into several
>delightful dialogs with people who just can't read.  Please don't be one
>of those people if you can help it.
>
>FYI,
>cgf
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