Azoknak az embereknek akik levelet akarnak küldeni a jövőben Linus Torvaldsnak, jobban meg kell nézniük mit írnak. Például figyelniük kell a NAGYBETŰS SZAVAKRA, a vulgáris kifejezésekre, és így tovább. Úgy látszik Linus elkezdte használni a SpamAssassin-t, és így történhetett meg , hogy néhány hozzá küldött patch elveszett hibás felismerés miatt. Mivel elég kevés fontos dolog veszett el így, Linus úgy döntött, hogy folytatni fogja a levelek szűrését. Ezzel mindenki jól jár, hiszen Linusnak kevesebb spam levelet kell kiválogatnia, és így több ideje marad a patchek átnézésére, a fejlesztés koordinálására.
Most már kezd világossá válni... :-) Ezért írta többször is Linus, hogy küldjék újra a patcheket, mert valami rejtélyes okból elvesztek ;-)
Linus alábbi leveléből kiderül, hogy milyennek is szeretné látni a hozzá küldött leveleket:From: Linus Torvalds
To: pwaechtler@mac.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 10/10 sound/oss/dmasound/dmasound_q40.c
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:07:41 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Kernel Mailing List
[ More examples of emails that didn't make it to me, with a public warning to the kernel list. I'm going through my last 1000 received emails to see which ones were incorrectly marked spam: that seems to have happened to exactly 2 of them right now, your 5/10 and Hans' 3/3.
On the whole I'm pretty happy, since it automatically deleted 150+ real spam emails over the last two days alone, so the few false positives aren't going to make me switch - I'll just try to convince people to fix their mailers instead. ]
Peter,
your emails tend to be marked as spam for me. This one, for example, came _really_ close to my not-very-aggressive filter limit, and since I never received PATCH 5/10 I suspect that got eaten.
The reasons your emails seem to be considered spammish by spamassassing is:
tests=MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,NO_REAL_NAME,DATE_IN_FUTURE
because of this:
(a) your email software is broken and does not add a message ID, so the ID gets added by one of the _relaying_ stations instead of your own mailer:
Message-Id:
Received: from picmac.adams.family ([145.254.143.74]) by
asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id
H261D300.AEV; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 03:05:27 -0700
Spam detectors consider emails without original message ID's to be likely bulk output.
(b) Your email From address is
From: pwaechtler@mac.com
which looks more automated than a named person (ie it _likes_ seeing something like this:
From: pwaechtler@mac.com (Peter Waechtler)
instead, which looks more like a real person than an automated address - and also allows the quoted reply to look a lot more natural)
(c) your date is bogus:
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:56:27 +0200
even though the mail was received "Mon, 9 Sep 2002". Again, this tends to make spam detectors _think_ that the email body was auto-generated rather than generated by a real mail client.
Your mailer seems to be
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482)
which is apparently a total piece of cr*p software.
NOTE! This email actually got past the spam filter despite all these problems. But the problems get it "close enough" to be considered spam that any additional issues (if you were to send an all-caps subject line, for example) would take it over the line. That seems to have happened with patch 5/10, for example.
Linus
