From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 15:54:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DB316A412 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FC7143D5F for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:54:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2006 15:54:12 -0000 Received: from p54A7FDA5.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.0.12]) [84.167.253.165] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 20 Sep 2006 17:54:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5465401 Message-ID: <45116419.7040701@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:54:01 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" Organization: Lords of Nightmare User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Sandford References: <09bd01c6dcb6$cbe6b190$1d00010a@TDGSVAIO> In-Reply-To: <09bd01c6dcb6$cbe6b190$1d00010a@TDGSVAIO> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is GNATs refusing my posts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:54:24 -0000 Thomas Sandford wrote: > 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! The same thing happened to me today. I just sent the mail again, with one line changed and it got through.