[Python-Dev] Tracker marks my messages as spam :-)

[Nicko van Someren]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 18:37, Steve Holden wrote:

> Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2008 6:43 AM, Nicko van Someren <nicko at nicko.org> wrote:
>>> Perhaps it has to do with the low signal to noise ratio of your
>>> messages...
>>
>> That was a little uncalled for. Be polite.
>
> I don't believe it was at all impolite: It was a literal observation  
> of
> a relevant phenomenon. Jesus's email that started this thread used  
> 1305
> characters to simply say
>
> "This will be my last email today, I don't want to waste (more of)  
> your
> *valuable* time."
>
> a message of 89 characters. By anyone's standards that's a low S/N
> ratio. Even without the digital signature overhead it is still 89
> characters from a total of 648 ... it's quite possible that's why his
> messages are being misinterpreted.

Exactly.  I by no means meant to suggest that the quality of the  
content was low, only that it was lost in a morass of padding which  
might confuse a spam filter.  Sorry if my comment was misconstrued.

	Nicko