[Sugar-devel] subject changed from upper case

[Ryan Cunningham]

I am sorry for trying to threaten a user who, as it turns out, sent a
message that was not of an unsolicited nature.

Such threat will now be reversed.

Thank you for the patience to tell me about this issue.

> On Jan 11, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
> 
> Let's analyze why this email was flagged as spam with an eye to helping
> instead of a blanket "I'll report you".
> 
>> On January 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM Ryan Cunningham <rvskmbrly3 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The message you have sent appears to be spam:
>> 
>>> X-Spam-Flag: YES
>>> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=3.9 required=3.5 tests=DEAR_SOMETHING,
> 
> So the total is above the threshold, which is made up of:
> 
>         *  1.6 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
> 
> Using ALL CAPS in the subject line, 1.6
> Please use proper case here, the use of ALL CAPS is considered to be
> shouting also.
> 
>>>      * 0.2 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT Reply-To freemail username ends in
>>>      digit *      (ifeanyi peter <ifeanyipeter42[at]yahoo.com> )
>>>      * 0.2 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username
>>> ends
>>>      in *      digit (ifeanyipeter42[at]yahoo.com)
> 
> 0.4 for having digits in the email addresses.
> 
>>>      *  1.7 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'
> 
> I'm not sure if I agree with such a high rating for being polite with the
> use of "Dear..." but together with the above ratings puts this email over
> the required=3.5 threshold. 
> 
>>>      *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
>>>      *  0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid
>>> X-Spam-Level: ***
>>> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on
>>>      sunjammer.sugarlabs.org <http://sunjammer.sugarlabs.org/>
>> I’m sorry to tell you this, but junk mail messages are not accepted on
>> the Sugar Labs development mailing list.
>> 
> 
> Think the subject line is what put this email over the spam limit. That is
> easy to fix by the sender.
> Nothing below I would consider as spam, no html, url links, ads, just a
> request for a meeting.
>  
>> If you continue posting to this mailing list, you may be reported to the
>> Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s
>> Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime
>> Center.
>> 
> 
> Some of the new developers may not have much experience with what amounts
> to business correspondence and may need a bit of guidance in the best
> practices. What a great way to scare off eager new developers, threats of
> the FBI being involved.
> 
>>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Ifeanyi Peter <ifeanyipeter42 at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Sir,
>>> 
>>> A proposal to do a triage meeting with suggestions below:
>>> 
>>> 1) Wrapping up loose ends before the sugar 104 release  and the end of
>>> GCI
>>> 
>>> 2) To block off a 3-hour window
>>> 
>>> Thank you as my proposal is considerable granted timely.
>>> 
>>> kind regards,
>>> Ifeanyi Matthew
>>> 
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> 
> Jerry