Re: allowing gmane to post to cygwin-apps

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>]

On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 14:04 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > On Sep  1 19:26, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > > >> I'd say that mail through Gmane is still filtered on Sourceware.
> > > >
> > > > I guess you're right.  What we got a while back was to remove the
> > > > extra-aggressive filters on the cygwin mailing lists, so the spam
> > > > filtering on those are the same now as for any other mailing list on
> > > > sourceware.  So I assume (but I don't know that, actually) that
> > > > the same gmane filtering is done for all mailing lists on sware.
> > > 
> > > No, it must be specific to cygwin-apps (or else the main cygwin list is
> > > excepted).  Posting through Gmane has and still does work on the main
> > > list, but on none of the others.  Gmane will send the mail as coming
> > > from your subscribed address (if you've configured it correctly), but of
> > > course it's still delivered by gmane's mailer.
> > 
> > Hmm, ok.  Care to ask overseers or even... postmaster?
> 
> I wrote to cygwin-apps-owner at sourceware.org on September 1, and
> postmaster at sourceware.org on September 9.  No one has answered either
> one.  Any other ideas?

This is not something we control ourselves, so please be patient.

--
Yaakov