kern/96157: Subtle incompatability of FreeBSD and LITE-ON SOHW-1673s drive

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 27 13:45:02 UTC 2010


On 2010-10-26, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> >State-Changed-Why: 
> >Submitter's mail server rejects mail from me.
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96157
>
> I hope that you will excuse me for saying so, but I do think that that
> is rather a poor reason for closing the PR.
> 
> What e-mail address were you sending from?  Was it in one of these
> freemail domains that spew spam continuously, you know, like Hotmail,
> Yahoo and Gmail?  (I have those all blocked here, because life is too
> short and I don't have time to deal with all of the spam these places
> generate and send me every damn day.)

> Didn't the bounce message you got when you tried to e-mail me direct you
> to the contact form on my web site, where you could have easily reached
> me and asked to be specially whitelisted?

I am sorry but I don't think that we can realistically expect developers
to go through such hoops to just reach a PR submitter. Thus by closing
the PR I will also save time of the next person trying to contact the
submitter.

I can reopen the PR, if you provide a working e-mail address. Thanks.

-- 
Jaakko


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