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From:
Robert Spier
Date:
July 31, 2002 23:44
Subject:
Re: problems sending patches
Message ID:
15688.55472.953804.654493@rls.cx
>On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Stephen Rawls wrote:
>> The last two (well, the only two :) patches I sent
>> were counted as spam.  Some of the points were becuase

Sorry about that!  I'm trying to be better safe than sorry in
preventing spam from getting to the list.

>> Do the patches still get read if they are counted as
>> spam?  Are they just less likely to be noticed?

Yes.  We periodically check the spam queue and move things to the
right place.  I have a todo list item for resending them to the list,
but until that's done, they'll just be less noticed until someone goes
through open tickets.

>1: Changing your machine so that it doesn't think it's yahoo.com
>2: Adding a Reply-To: back to your yahoo address
>
>(clearly if you currently need to have your machine think it's in a sub-domain
>of yahoo.com so that your messages come From: yahoo.com, then you'd have to
>do both of the above to get mail to go back to your yahoo account)

He's using Yahoo webmail.

>I'm curious why Reply-To is scored so highly - I don't set any Reply-To in
>my messages, and I didn't think that it was normal practice.

Ask the SpamAssassin folks.  ;)

I've dropped it's value down a little bit for the perlbug stuff.  I
may still need to drop it more.

-R


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