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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:25:21 +0300
From:      Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/96157: Subtle incompatability of FreeBSD and LITE-ON SOHW-1673s drive
Message-ID:  <20101027132521.GA1381@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <56034.1288128733@tristatelogic.com>
References:  <201010261509.o9QF9SOu074419@freefall.freebsd.org> <56034.1288128733@tristatelogic.com>

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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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