Why is GNATs refusing my posts?

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Thomas Sandford wrote:
> I recently tried to send a PR (for an updated port), and got the
> following response:
> 
> --- 8<---------------
> This is a canned auto-reply to your recent email to the bug submission
> address.
> 
> Your message has been identified as likely spam and has been discarded.
> 
> If you feel this is an error, please submit your report via the web
> interface or directly on the freebsd-bugs mailing list.
> 
> --- 8<---------------
> 
> Frankly this is just DUMB. Autoresponding to (as opposed to bouncing)
> spam is most likely going to hit someone other than the spammer.
> 
> It gives me ZERO information as to why the mail system didn't like my
> post, so I have no means of working out what I should change to appear
> less like a source of spam.
> 
> Since the mail sent was a properly formatted PR (generated by
> devel/porttools), and the mail system got as far as accepting my email
> before generating an autoresponse, it could/should at least have parsed
> the email to see if it looked like a PR before rejecting it.
> 
> 
> Furthermore it doesn't even seem to be consistent, since a PR submitted
> the self same way about 4 days ago got through just fine.
> 
> I've now got to rewrite the "description" part of the bug submission
> (since it didn't copy my message back to me) and try and work out a way
> of getting past the filter (there's no point in trying to submit the PR
> through the web, as the web form clearly states "Note: copy/paste will
> destroy TABs and spacing, and this web form should not be used to submit
> code as plain text.").
> 
> Spam is a major, worldwide problem - but transferring the problem to
> someone else is NOT a solution.
> 
> Oh - and if you hadn't guessed - this has really cheesed me off!

The same thing happened to me today. I just sent the mail again,
with one line changed and it got through.