From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27716 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2010 19:27:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 27707 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Oct 2010 19:27:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f171.google.com) (209.85.214.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:27:43 +0000 Received: by iwn36 with SMTP id 36so1087470iwn.2 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:27:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.174.196 with SMTP id u4mr2596480ibz.19.1286566061502; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.206.11 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:27:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1286518842.1832.42.camel@OG3> References: <1286518842.1832.42.camel@OG3> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps From: Kenneth Wolcott To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00213.txt.bz2 2010/10/7 SZAB=D3 Gergely : > Hello, > > The mailing list does not accept html email, that's fair enough. > > The real problem is, it also bounces every email with a company > disclaimer about intentions and original addressees. > > Well, the original addressee is cygwin at cygwin dot com, which is a publ= ic > mailing list, readable even from Alpha Centauri (with 4 years delay). > > This policy is OK for most FOSS projects, but Cygwin should be an > exception. I think Cygwin is used most by 3PPs within big companies > where everybody _must_ use Windows and those disclaimers are always attac= hed to > outgoing mail. If you are a free and sane person, attracted to unixy stuf= f, > you'd probably use Linux. > > Yes, I've read the posting instructions, and I know I should convince my > employer to remove the disclaimers. What chance do you think I have to > convince a 20000-employee company, where central IT is not even in my > country? They also restrict access to private email from the office. > > I know, I should leave them and/or buy a smartphone for emailing. :-) > > But my point is: the mailing list is cut off from its most important > audience. > > Best regards > Gergely IMNSHO: Solution: Subscribe to the list and post to the list using a non-company email address. The only downside I can think of is where the management does not allow you to use non-company email or application to access a non-company email address. Ken Wolcott -- 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