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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: If you don't want Email, please just say so!
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:43:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur75j2oh2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060301174025.217A-100000@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:10:08 +0000 (GMT))

> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:10:08 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> In recent days, several emails I've sent to Emacs hackers' personal
> mailboxes have been bounced, with messages like:
> 
> to=<hacker@domain.foo>, delay=2+02:26:53, xdelay=00:00:22, mailer=esmtp,
> relay=xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.net. [128.128.128.128], stat=Deferred: 451 4.7.1
> Please try one more time in one hour to confirm.
> [...]
> I detest this "greylisting" which seems to be proliferating through the
> community.  Am I supposed to get down on my knees and lick somebody's
> boots, just to be allowed to send him email?
> [...]
> Please be reasonable, friends!

Please be patient: mailman seems to be in deep trouble lately, so all
kind of weird stuff can happen (I know I've seen some of that).  I'm
sure it's being worked on.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-03 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-01 18:10 If you don't want Email, please just say so! Alan Mackenzie
2006-03-03 18:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-03-04  0:03   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-03-03 21:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-04 11:18 ` Ken Raeburn
2006-03-04 15:38   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-03-04 18:34     ` Ken Raeburn
2006-03-04 21:38       ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-05  0:37       ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-03-04 13:38 ` Richard Stallman

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