Hello Christopher, Thank you for the explanations! I wish I understood it in the very beginning... I hope the information about our new mirror will find or found the right person.
James On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:31:16PM +0200, James Miller wrote: >>You are absolutely right - I had to put my e-mail in plain text just >>because I had to let the sourcemaster know the contact e-mail address >>due to rules on the page about mirroring. On the other hand our mail >>server is very good in spam filtering, so I don't think it will be a >>problem :) > > I think you're missing something. > > The point was to reduce the spam load on the currently not-too-highly > spammed sourceware account. By duplicating the raw email address twice > you've increased the likelihood that I'll see spam. Even if I don't, > sourceware also has good spam filtering but that is no reason to > increase the amount of email to sourceware that gets dropped on the > floor. > > So this has nothing to do with your person spam filter. It has to do > with list policy and not getting *my* account spammed. > > I don't want to beat a dead horse here. I know that Cliff knows what > I'm talking about and he was obviously trying to help. It's not that > big a deal but I don't want there to be any confusion about this in the > archives. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Best wishes, James Miller -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
