Re: [BK] PATCH ReiserFS 1 of 3 RESEND

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Thanks for your suggestion, we will act on it and do so.

Hans

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>Hans,
> one of the reasons for problems with your patches is that your emails 
>seem to sometimes be labeled as spam.
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>And one of the major reasons for that is apparently simply that your 
>"From:" address is not a good one:
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>	From: reiser@reload.namesys.com (Hans Reiser)
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>where "reload.namesys.com" is not in the MX domain:
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>	dig -t MX reload.namesys.com
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>gives no answer. As a result, spam detectors look at the From: line and 
>consider you an extremely suspect person, likely to be up to no good.
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>I would suggest you fix your mailer to have a valid MX-record return 
>address, ie <reiser@namesys.com> instead of <reiser@reload.namesys.com>.
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>(Yes, I realize that both addresses likely work perfectly fine, and that
>"reload"  is the machine you actually use for sending the email, but
>still.. I bet I'm not the only one who uses spam filtering software that
>cares about issues like this.)
>
>[ Cc to linux-kernel left intact not to publicly castigate Hans, but 
>  because I know this is true for some other people too. ]
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>			Linus
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