"Spew of old posts": explanation and apology

Several rather old posts are passing through the mailing lists about now. The cause is understood; they got spam-trapped and had to be manually released. Due to day job, I've not been very regular about checking the spam traps. My apologies for the delays. The main issue is HTML text. Please be aware that the "No HTML" policy on discussion lists (the patch lists are exempt) will not change. Any HTML at all will get your post held as probable spam. I've already moved the HTML check to the end of the queue, and even after culling all the stuff that's obviously spam for other reasons, 80% of mail containing HTML is still spam! We'll try to be more timely about moderation, but moderation of HTML posts continues to be a necessary compromise. Stephen Turnbull -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN