"Spew of old posts": explanation and apology

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Several rather old posts are passing through the mailing lists about
now.  The cause is understood; they got spam-trapped and had to be
manually released.

Due to day job, I've not been very regular about checking the spam
traps.  My apologies for the delays.  The main issue is HTML text.

Please be aware that the "No HTML" policy on discussion lists (the
patch lists are exempt) will not change.  Any HTML at all will get
your post held as probable spam.  I've already moved the HTML check to
the end of the queue, and even after culling all the stuff that's
obviously spam for other reasons, 80% of mail containing HTML is still
spam!

We'll try to be more timely about moderation, but moderation of HTML
posts continues to be a necessary compromise.

Stephen Turnbull

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Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering   University of Tsukuba
http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/        Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN