[Sugar-devel] subject changed from upper case

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 15:13:23 EST 2015


Back to the topic of the email, would Friday work for a triage
meeting? Maybe late morning on the US East Coast so not to be too late
in Europe/Africa?

-walter

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Ryan Cunningham <rvskmbrly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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