Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:15:06 +0100 From: "Thomas Sandford" <freebsduser@paradisegreen.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Why is GNATs refusing my posts? Message-ID: <09bd01c6dcb6$cbe6b190$1d00010a@TDGSVAIO>
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I recently tried to send a PR (for an updated port), and got the following response: --- 8<--------------- This is a canned auto-reply to your recent email to the bug submission address. Your message has been identified as likely spam and has been discarded. If you feel this is an error, please submit your report via the web interface or directly on the freebsd-bugs mailing list. --- 8<--------------- Frankly this is just DUMB. Autoresponding to (as opposed to bouncing) spam is most likely going to hit someone other than the spammer. It gives me ZERO information as to why the mail system didn't like my post, so I have no means of working out what I should change to appear less like a source of spam. Since the mail sent was a properly formatted PR (generated by devel/porttools), and the mail system got as far as accepting my email before generating an autoresponse, it could/should at least have parsed the email to see if it looked like a PR before rejecting it. Furthermore it doesn't even seem to be consistent, since a PR submitted the self same way about 4 days ago got through just fine. I've now got to rewrite the "description" part of the bug submission (since it didn't copy my message back to me) and try and work out a way of getting past the filter (there's no point in trying to submit the PR through the web, as the web form clearly states "Note: copy/paste will destroy TABs and spacing, and this web form should not be used to submit code as plain text."). Spam is a major, worldwide problem - but transferring the problem to someone else is NOT a solution. Oh - and if you hadn't guessed - this has really cheesed me off! -- Thomas Sandford
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