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Re: lost announcements
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:40:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: lost announcements
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:09:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 26 09:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 09:24:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >I'm wondering if the raw mail address filter isn't a bit overagressive.
>> >Am I mistaken or has the traffic on the cygwin ML gone down a lot
>> >lately?
>>
>> I thought it was obvious that I spend some time every day dealing with
>> spam, bounced email, and other irritating sysadmin activities on
>> sourceware. There are a lot of vain attempts to send html based email
>> and email with raw email addresses to the cygwin list but most of them
>> eventually result in either 1) a "why is your system so mean to me???"
>> message to postmaster or 2) email to the cygwin list. The end result of
>> 1) is usually correctly formatted email to the cygwin list.
>>
>> In any event, this is not really a subject for this list. You could
>> send email to postmaster if you have concerns but I'm pretty sure he
>> will tell you the same thing.
>
>But..., but..., the postmaster is soooo mean!!!1!
...and before he started dealing with sysadmin duties on sourceware he
was the very soul of kindness and light.