-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall wrote: > René Berber wrote: >> Charli Li wrote: >> [snip] >>> Please don't quote raw email addresses (aka: >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR)! This is an anti-spam >>> measure used by the Cygwin lists (and probably the rest of sourceware's >>> lists). >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU >>> >>> Could I get a new acronym over here? PCYMTSTRTFTTCML (Please Configure >>> Your Mailer To Set The Reply-To Field To The Cygwin Mailing List). >> >> What about "Please don't reply to messages if you are not going to answer >> anything, just add spam to this list". > > Won't that leave the list without any traffic? ;-) > > But seriously, unless you mean this in a rhetorical sense, I don't see any > practical way of enforcing such a rule. I can understand the sentiment but > who's to say what's spam and what's not. For instance, I myself have been > accused of as much on this list. Rightly or not, I cannot say > (obviously I'm > not the best one to judge that ;-) ). But I think this is just one of > those > little evils that we have to deal with on a one by one basis. Anything > else > would likely just shut down the list, IMO, as the cries of spam become at > least as much trouble as the messages now that some majority may consider > spam. > > On the other hand, PCYMTNSS (Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Send Spam) > does have a nice ring to it. ;-) >
There you go, there you go! :-) But, I think we may have to TITTTL these threads. - -- Charli - --- Step away from make 3.80. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/jQQKGyf4JaPChgRAj2qAKCOME9ZVX6+SzfZA1TFCRAD5XzPLACfesh8 iP6y/hVYdzASp1S50oWomvU= =38mA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
