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Re: Just a test....


Christopher Faylor wrote, On 6.5.2008 15:10:
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:41:46AM +0200, V??clav Haisman wrote:
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Move along, there is nothing to see here.
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I've really never understood why anyone would think it's ok to send something like this to hundreds of people. If you are planning on sending a message to the list then send a message to the list. If you don't have anything to send right now then there shouldn't be any urgency in figuring out if your email is working. There isn't any reason to send a content-free message.

"Test" email is basically just spam.  You're not selling anything but
you are sending email to a bunch of people for no other reason than to
satisfy your (apparent) personal curiousity about whether you are able
to send email or whether sourceware is able to receive your email.  That
is definitely not what this list is for.
The sourceware server mailing list software keeps mangling my emails, rendering my PGP signatures invalid. I figured it might help if I didn't send emails using PGP/MIME. The As and =s in the email were supposed to trigger the problem. (Though when I thinkg about it now I think it should have been spaces instead.)


There is, however, a list called "test-list" at sourceware where this
I do not see any such list listed on <http://sourceware.org/lists.html>. Is there any other relevant mailing lists list where I should have looked?

kind of thing is ok.  If you really feel the need to send test email
here then please use that.

cgf

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