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On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:57:19PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Christopher Faylor <deleted> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:33:26PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list for this, but I am trying to get
>>>a new CMake release uploaded to cygwin and am having some trouble.  I
>>>can not seem to post messages to the cygwin-apps mailing list.  I tried
>>>to re-subscribe my email address, but it correctly said I was already
>>>subscribed.   Is there anyone on this list that could help me?
>>
>> As I said in response to your message to postmaster of Sep 30 - you were
>> sending html email.  Apparently the bounce (and the reply from postmaster)
>> which informed you of that fact were caught in your spam filter.
>
>Bill, he's making a heck of a good point. Most people don't realize
>that HTML mail can carry all sorts of nasty things, and leave their
>mail programs set on that as default.
>
>Hence the reasoning behind everything at your end CGF. In fact I won't
>even argue.

There is no need for arguing about anything.  My point (which I guess I
didn't make clear) was that the mailing lists at
cygwin.com/sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org do not accept html email, even if
there is a pure text component.

cgf

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