From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61996 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2016 18:45:11 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 61964 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jan 2016 18:45:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=receives, relatively, H*i:CACoZoo3fCFt, sk:ErikSo X-HELO: mail-io0-f177.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f177.google.com) (209.85.223.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:45:09 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f177.google.com with SMTP id o67so443254978iof.3 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:45:09 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=2J4Vp5atte9OqxtohmYy2pJ8K5qr+0gFKYXQeHZDu2g=; b=IvFx2yC3OJewZc5kGHOscsBxOElGxEKwp6gZxA81BKuYsxbHgBezNhOfC+pqt6auf0 F+odezgjBTCWRox73FglGyKkD05zSzP1tVMD76bBbSlrTjl10CK62U1wVyF7DRkQSoa9 BjMUGQlhemon1aIPK/N/HbkO74q17nhO8vJkg22iEwOMQafKohX6cINqzaw/4CxIx4Zr MByhRxW8vjchytXhY8n4yl/hh77GVCbdbchSTaVWA7+jiD/eBzF8MQQUwX3MvhRG2XaT FavO5YUWa9THCE2GrsYzlFx54Fb9ZgJiFNqwM1019d1Z+0tuFt+qwxPuzdAuCCf9u4Y2 WHiQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnZfmIGKROJzSxE79S0KGtW17IL0WgHI5maGm/VTaUYFu7n6mlNh5RyTp/7jV19q7+mXmDxmeyZGe2HF+UvABatmUgS1w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.131.86 with SMTP id f83mr66993720iod.189.1451933107536; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:45:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.79.28.149 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:45:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Two web page issues From: Eli Barzilay To: Erik Soderquist Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > https://cygwin.com/acronyms/ > > I don't know how this is linked to; I have it bookmarked. (Yeah, I did get there eventually, both times (possibly more). It didn't help that I spend a few good minutes reading around only to end up learning that it's a silly acronym that could have been spared...) > I've found it before, but I'm subscribed, so... specifically not > listing the address is a common spam prevention method, and many lists > will reject (silently or otherwise) email from non-subscribed > addresses as a spam prevention method as well. I thought that this could be a motivation too -- but first, at least the "foo at cygwin dot com" could be used, and second, I checked other lists there and some do list their address. (And as someone who managed a relatively popular bunch of mailing lists, I can definitely say that not writing the mailing list's address on a web page is not going to make a noticeable dent at the amount of spam it receives...) -- ((x=>x(x))(x=>x(x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! -- 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