for Thomas E. Zander, mplayer maintainer.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0800, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On 06/08/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > How rude :(
> 
> Thank you, Kris, for this proof of enlightenment, insight and wisdom.
> Your comments are (and always have been) so incredibly useful, I don't
> find appropriate words to describe my gratitude.
> But as I am not a native speaker, I have a wonderful excuse, haven't I?
> 
> Riggs

I stand by my comment.

Distributed, worldwide projects like FreeBSD rely on communication
between their members.  When one project member in a position of
responsibility denies the ability for others to contact him -- whether
it was his direct choice or just because he chooses to use a mail
server with inappropriate filtering -- then it harms the project.

Try to imagine the situation if it was reversed.  Suppose you were
trying to send email about a problem or suggested improvement to
someone in the project, but that person bounced your mail with a
sweeping generalization like "Rejected: too many germans are spammers
and you might be one too".  How would that make you feel?

I trust you'll take steps to restore the ability of our russian users
(and other groups who may be filtered in bulk by your mail server) to
contact you by email.

Kris
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