Re: lost announcements

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Oct 26 02:27, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:17:40AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > >> >Hm, you're right.  But the odd thing is that they weren't posted to the cygwin
> > >> >list, which is where I read them:  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/.
> > >> >
> > >> >Any idea why?
> > >> 
> > >> Embedded email address.
> > >
> > >Could you please be more specific?  I've compared the 4 announcements, and I
> > >can't see any relevant difference between them.  The only email addresses I can
> > >see in the announcements for sng and stunnel are the To and From addresses,
> > >which are of course present in every announcement.  There's also the unsubscribe
> > >address, which is generic and appears in the boilerplate of every announcement.
> > 
> > People have been removing the unsubscribe email address from their
> > announcements.  Your announcements seem to contain extra MIME characters
> > which sometimes confuse the "raw email in body of message" check and
> > allow the message to sneak through.
> 
> Thanks.  I think I see what you're talking about, although I have no idea
> why they're there.  Extra spaces that got converted for some reason I
> guess.
> 
> So are you saying that the text we're supposed to add at the bottom of our
> announcements has changed?  If so, can we please update the example at
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html#announcement, and notify this list?

I just replace the @ with an " <at> " string on setup.html.

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?


Corinna

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