[pvrusb2] mailing list issue

[Mike Isely]

Once a month the mailmain software here generates a reminder message to 
all pvrusb2 subscribers.  This message includes various bits useful for 
managing the subscription.  This happens on the first day of each month.

This month the mailman software received a number of bounces in reply, 
all due to overly aggressive spam filtering at the far end.  The domains 
that are doing this include:

	freemail.gr
	charter.net
	alum.mit.edu
	culverct.com

I am NOT going to run around to every little site and try to correct 
these one at a time.  This is not what I signed up for when I started 
maintaining this driver and setting up this list.  I did however check 
over 100 real-time black lists and as far as I can tell, my server is 
not on any of them (nor should it be).  I can only conclude therefore 
that these domains must be doing some content-type of filtering and the 
reminder e-mail is triggering the filter.  If you did not receive that 
reminder then either you have reminders turned off in your subscription 
or your mail domain is incorrectly blocking the traffic.  Take that as a 
strong clue that something is wrong.

We all have to deal with the junk e-mail problem.  My pobox.com address 
gets hit 300-400 times per day with that crap.  However I still manually 
scan nearly ALL of it because as maintainer of this driver I routinely 
get e-mail from pretty much everywhere and frequenly pobox has 
mis-classified those messages.  I try to be as careful as possible not 
to miss anything.  So you can imagine how infuriating it is to be 
getting well-intentioned but WRONG bounces from other servers involving 
users who have clearly taken the time to subscribe to this list.

Please everyone make sure that you are performing correct filtering!

  -Mike


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