[ewg] Dropped OpenFabrics list messages (!)

[Dhabaleswar Panda]

I have also been a victim of this message dropping in the past on this
list. A few weeks back, I could not post MVAPICH2 1.0 release
announcement to either ewg or general list. Nobody else from our
department (existing subscribers to these mailing lists) could post
either. Finally, I contacted Jeff Becker and he kindly extended help
in forwarding the announcements to the lists.

Not sure whether this e-mail will go through or not ... I am hoping that
it will go through.

Thanks, 

DK

> Jeff Becker ---
> 
> The anti-spam measures on the OF lists are frustrating.  Spam is  
> getting through and valid messages are being dropped.  Can we please  
> change the policy of the OF lists to, at the very least, whitelist  
> some e-mail addresses and/or domains?  I would be in favor of a only- 
> subscribers-can-post policy (which completely eliminates the spam  
> problem), but I understand that there are some strong religious  
> feelings from others against such a policy.
> 
> I have sent multiple e-mails to the ewg list that have inexplicably  
> been dropped recently (including just a few minutes ago).  I know  
> that the same thing has happened to Tziporet, too.
> 
> - Oct 22: I sent a teleconference announcement at 8:25am US Eastern  
> that never  arrived.  I re-sent the message at 9:33am US Eastern and  
> it was delivered properly.
> 
> - Oct 24: I sent an Outlook invite at 8:59am US Eastern that never  
> arrived.
> - Oct 24: I sent a 2nd (different) Outlook invite at 9:01am US  
> Eastern that never arrived.
> 
> I'm *guessing* that these messages were not delivered because of anti- 
> spam measures on the OpenFabrics lists.  Can you confirm / deny?  If  
> I'm wrong and the problem is on my end, please let me know.
> 
> Per http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-October/ 
> 004753.html, I have 4 more Outlook meeting invites to send, but I  
> don't want to send them now for fear that they'll either not arrive  
> or will be even more confusing because the first 2 did not arrive.
> 
> Specifically: the ewg mailing list is currently unreliable.  This is  
> very frustrating.  :-(
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
> Cisco Systems
> 
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