On Mar 12 15:43, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > > >>> I know that this is a pointless exercise but I'll say it anyway: people > >>> who think that they can have a private chat with Corinna or Larry by > >>> sending email to what seem to be their private email addresses will just > >>> show up in the spam trap, possibly even causing spamassassin to think > >>> that they are a spammer. > >>> > >>> We mention in multiple places that cygwin-related issues should go to > >>> this list. So, please don't bother trying to send private email unless > >>> you've been specifically asked to do so. You'll also be doing me a > >>> favor because I won't have to spend time cleaning out the spam traps. > >> > >>Well, here goes nothing. > >> > >>I am happy to admit that I'm one of those persons. The problem is > >>exactly that what you claim we "should do" versus what is actually > >>possible to do. If any of the list maintainers had actually bothered > >>to try to register to these email lists, you would probably have found > >>out that your spam filters are set so high, that it is impossible for > >>normal people to even register to these lists! > > > FYI, The Cygwin list has 1212 subscribers with 89 new joiners since > > January 1. I'm the "list maintainer" and I'm obviously registered. > > The same software that handles Cygwin also handles gcc.gnu.org and > > sourceware.org. There are many other mailing lists under those > > domains, and some of them have even more subscribers. > > The point was, it's nowhere mentioned, who to contact in case of list issues. > Not in list mail headers, neither on list's mailman web page. > I've had multiple mails blocked for containing "foreign language" (how can I > help? It's Microsoft smarts to translate group names to make everyone > unhappy), and I multiple times tried to find the address to appeal to. To no > avail. > Yes, I vaguely recalled, that there supposed to be "<list>-owner" address, > but it's only my poor memory. How can I trust her without confirmation?
On the other hand, the "postmaster" account exists everywhere... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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