List server allows email addresses in message body

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Oct 27 11:40:00 GMT 2014


On Oct 25 11:33, Doug Henderson wrote:
> Recently, I have seen several messages on the mailing list where email
> addresses have not been removed from posts with quoted original
> messages.
> 
> Due to having messages rejected, I was under the impression that the
> list server would rejecting messages that had email addresses embedded
> in the body of the message.
> 
> This seems to no longer be the case.

It isn't.  The Cygwin list now uses the exact same set of filter rules
as any other mailing list on sourceware.org.  The special rules added to
the cygwin mailing list too often resulted in false positives in the
filter trap.


Corinna

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