Re: svn commit: r1190215 - /subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

philip@apache.org wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:05:57 -0000:
> Author: philip
> Date: Fri Oct 28 09:05:57 2011
> New Revision: 1190215
> 
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1190215&view=rev
> Log:
> * publish/mailing-lists.html (subscribing, unsubscribing): Add spam note.
> 
> Modified:
>     subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html
> 
> Modified: subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html?rev=1190215&r1=1190214&r2=1190215&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html (original)
> +++ subversion/site/publish/mailing-lists.html Fri Oct 28 09:05:57 2011
> @@ -332,6 +332,10 @@
>     (where <em>LISTNAME</em> is the name of the list: "dev", "users",
>     etc.) from the email address you wish to be subscribed.</p>
>  
> +<p>Spam filters don't like messages with empty Subjects; just use
> +   e.g. subscribe. Spam filters are also more likely to reject
> +   HTML-formatted messages; please use plain text.</p>
> +
>  </div> <!-- #subscribing -->
>  
>  
> @@ -352,6 +356,10 @@
>     subscribed, and then send email to
>     <em>LISTNAME</em>-unsubscribe-<em>some.name=some.domain</em>@subversion.apache.org.</p>
>  
> +<p>Spam filters don't like messages with empty Subjects; just use
> +   e.g. unsubscribe. Spam filters are also more likely to reject
> +   HTML-formatted messages; please use plain text.</p>
> +
>  </div> <!-- #unsubscribing -->

Perhaps add this to http://www.apache.org/dev/something.html and just
link from here to the generic anti-spam instructions there?

(all committers have write access to the site)