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Re: Symlink resolving
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:25:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: Symlink resolving
- References: <19171449.post@talk.nabble.com> <07fa01c907cf$5857e5f0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <g92523$ei7$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:53:38PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Oh, and please! Don't send empty replies to spam posts. That's really
>> irritating.
>
> Actually, it looks like he tried to fulfill the request (it doesn't look
> like what I would consider "spam"; it looks like an anti-spam some
> subscriber set up and forgot to add an exception for mailing lists, like
> those annoying out-of-office replies I see occasionally). With luck, it
> worked and cygwin AT cygwin.com is now whitelisted, such that we will never
> see that particular verification request again.
I tend to try to block any verification report like that from ever showing
up again actually.
We had a big hit of spam today because some evil person used cygwin and
cygwin-xfree as From: addresses and the response swamped sourceware.org
until I noticed it. There was also a big hit in normal spam which
might have been due to spamassassin timing out under the load.
cgf