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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Thanks for your suggestion, we will act on it and do so.

Hans

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>Hans,
> one of the reasons for problems with your patches is that your emails 
>seem to sometimes be labeled as spam.
>
>And one of the major reasons for that is apparently simply that your 
>"From:" address is not a good one:
>
>	From: reiser@reload.namesys.com (Hans Reiser)
>
>where "reload.namesys.com" is not in the MX domain:
>
>	dig -t MX reload.namesys.com
>
>gives no answer. As a result, spam detectors look at the From: line and 
>consider you an extremely suspect person, likely to be up to no good.
>
>I would suggest you fix your mailer to have a valid MX-record return 
>address, ie <reiser@namesys.com> instead of <reiser@reload.namesys.com>.
>
>(Yes, I realize that both addresses likely work perfectly fine, and that
>"reload"  is the machine you actually use for sending the email, but
>still.. I bet I'm not the only one who uses spam filtering software that
>cares about issues like this.)
>
>[ Cc to linux-kernel left intact not to publicly castigate Hans, but 
>  because I know this is true for some other people too. ]
>
>			Linus
>
>
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>  
>

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