for Thomas E. Zander, mplayer maintainer.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:59:49PM +0800, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On 09/08/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > Try to imagine the situation if it was reversed.  Suppose you were
> > trying to send email about a problem or suggested improvement to
> > someone in the project, but that person bounced your mail with a
> > sweeping generalization like "Rejected: too many germans are spammers
> > and you might be one too".  How would that make you feel?
> 
> Probably it would feel very similar to submitting a patch for an open
> problem that is flawlessly picked up by whatever bug reporting system
> $project is currently using and then nobody is taking care of it for
> several years?
> Or does it feel similar like getting mails saying "Your port is crap. Fix it!"?
> Don't patrionise me. I did not intend for something like this to happen.
> 
> > I trust you'll take steps to restore the ability of our russian users
> > (and other groups who may be filtered in bulk by your mail server) to
> > contact you by email.
> 
> Sure. But I also would have done it without your explicit, additional,
> and frankly somewhat arrogant looking comment. Sergey's mail would
> have been completely sufficient.

Excellent, glad to hear it.

Kris