On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:16AM -0700, ian_bruce@fastmail.net wrote: > >> I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between "Humpty Dumpty" and > >> "Alice", which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There > >> was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that > >> indicated how that story was related to the choice of binary or > >> decimal disk storage units. > [...] that Humpty-Dumpty's remarks are EXACTLY on point, especially the > part about "neither more nor less." No, not really. I don't think forcing other people to solve riddles is not accpeted behavior and you should have been prepared to such reactions. > > I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking "uh, spamassassin > > missed killing that spam" without reading it all. Only the very end of > > the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that > > a maintainer would have gone that far. > The common understanding of "spam" is that it is the same thing as > Unsolicited Commercial Email, that is, it has an AGENDA, it's SELLING > something, legitimate or (probably) otherwise. I receive quite a lot of emails that don't have an agenda, sometimes don't have a meaning and sometimes even don't have content. It's a common convention to count them as spam too. -- WBR, wRAR
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