Re: allowing gmane to post to cygwin-apps

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Sep  1 18:47, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrew Schulman writes:
> > However now that I try this, it doesn't work.  I posted a message and gmane
> > accepted it, but the post (Subject: gmane now allows posting directly to
> > cygwin-apps) hasn't appeared. In cases like this, gmane's position (in their
> > FAQ) is that they sent the email, and the problem must be elsewhere.
> 
> Which likely is the case, given that cgf hated Gmane for whatever reason
> and also kept the spam traps adjusted.
> 
> > Does anyone know if there's something about the sourceware mailing list software
> > or configuration that would keep it from accepting email to cygwin-apps sent via
> > gmane?  Note that I've used gmane exclusively to post to the cygwin list for
> > years.  It works fine.  Only cygwin-apps seems to be affected by this problem.
> 
> 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.


Corinna

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