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Re: Posting problems
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: hsim at gmx dot li
- Cc: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:28:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: Posting problems
- References: <83ek84bjcw.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <18d205ed05090414502f9a35d4@mail.gmail.com> <83y86ca44y.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <20050905001421.5fcd42eb.hsim@gmx.li> <83mzms5tso.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0509041811350.23124@taxa.epi.umn.edu> <20050905012939.15769478.hsim@gmx.li>
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:29:39AM +0200, hsim@gmx.li wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:16:05 -0500 (CDT)
> Mike Miller <mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> > Sorry, your message has been denied due to keywords found in your
> > subject. This is probably due to an off-topic post.
> > See <http://sourceware.org/lists.html#sourceware-list-info> for mailing list
> > info for this site.
>
> It likes to reject any innocent subject.
Such a statement requires an example: what innocent subject are you
talking about? So far the subjects mentioned in this thread have been
X11-related.
> Interestingly however, this failure message doesn't seem to reach many
> posters, including me. So there are two things, 1# the subject filter
> is too harsh, and 2# why do the error messages get lost?
Re: 1#, see above. Re: 2#, since some people *are* getting the error
messages, the problem is likely to be somewhere on the side of those
who aren't getting them.
I'm emailing you directly rather than on the cygwin list because this
discussion is IMO off-topic on the cygwin list, except perhaps if
every other avenue had failed.