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<P><FONT SIZE=2>No need to apologize - it's not your fault. It may just be time to change our list policies.<BR>
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Please let me know when I can send my outlook invites for the upcoming ofed teleconferences.<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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-jms<BR>
Sent from my PDA<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Jeff Becker [<A HREF="mailto:Jeffrey.C.Becker@nasa.gov">mailto:Jeffrey.C.Becker@nasa.gov</A>]<BR>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:55 PM Eastern Standard Time<BR>
To: panda@cse.ohio-state.edu<BR>
Cc: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres); OpenFabrics EWG<BR>
Subject: Re: [ewg] Dropped OpenFabrics list messages (!)<BR>
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Hi all. I apologize for the problems and will look into them.<BR>
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-jeff<BR>
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Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:<BR>
> I have also been a victim of this message dropping in the past on this<BR>
> list. A few weeks back, I could not post MVAPICH2 1.0 release<BR>
> announcement to either ewg or general list. Nobody else from our<BR>
> department (existing subscribers to these mailing lists) could post<BR>
> either. Finally, I contacted Jeff Becker and he kindly extended help<BR>
> in forwarding the announcements to the lists.<BR>
><BR>
> Not sure whether this e-mail will go through or not ... I am hoping that<BR>
> it will go through.<BR>
><BR>
> Thanks,<BR>
><BR>
> DK<BR>
><BR>
> <BR>
>> Jeff Becker ---<BR>
>><BR>
>> The anti-spam measures on the OF lists are frustrating. Spam is <BR>
>> getting through and valid messages are being dropped. Can we please <BR>
>> change the policy of the OF lists to, at the very least, whitelist <BR>
>> some e-mail addresses and/or domains? I would be in favor of a only-<BR>
>> subscribers-can-post policy (which completely eliminates the spam <BR>
>> problem), but I understand that there are some strong religious <BR>
>> feelings from others against such a policy.<BR>
>><BR>
>> I have sent multiple e-mails to the ewg list that have inexplicably <BR>
>> been dropped recently (including just a few minutes ago). I know <BR>
>> that the same thing has happened to Tziporet, too.<BR>
>><BR>
>> - Oct 22: I sent a teleconference announcement at 8:25am US Eastern <BR>
>> that never arrived. I re-sent the message at 9:33am US Eastern and <BR>
>> it was delivered properly.<BR>
>><BR>
>> - Oct 24: I sent an Outlook invite at 8:59am US Eastern that never <BR>
>> arrived.<BR>
>> - Oct 24: I sent a 2nd (different) Outlook invite at 9:01am US <BR>
>> Eastern that never arrived.<BR>
>><BR>
>> I'm *guessing* that these messages were not delivered because of anti-<BR>
>> spam measures on the OpenFabrics lists. Can you confirm / deny? If <BR>
>> I'm wrong and the problem is on my end, please let me know.<BR>
>><BR>
>> Per <A HREF="http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-October/">http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-October/</A><BR>
>> 004753.html, I have 4 more Outlook meeting invites to send, but I <BR>
>> don't want to send them now for fear that they'll either not arrive <BR>
>> or will be even more confusing because the first 2 did not arrive.<BR>
>><BR>
>> Specifically: the ewg mailing list is currently unreliable. This is <BR>
>> very frustrating. :-(<BR>
>><BR>
>> --<BR>
>> Jeff Squyres<BR>
>> Cisco Systems<BR>
>><BR>
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