Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 2, 2014, 06:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20140602063607.GA27445@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87k392e0mf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:52:24AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

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> Some mailing list filters and/or spam filters flag mails with too many
> recipients so that they need to pass through moderation first.  The
> typical threads on this list are short and have few recipients while
> longer threads, due to the list policy of adding every participants to
> the Cc, will tend to have more recipients.

AFAIK, vger does not do anything like this. They block HTML, messages lacking a message-id, messages over 100K, and certain taboo phrases:

  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html#taboo

And anyway, I do not think vger is responsible here. The messages were delivered through the list, and other archives have them. This looks like a gmane problem.

According to gmane.org, their admins will look manually at messages flagged as spam, but I find it unlikely that they flagged several days worth of git traffic (and when they do, I think they cross-post them to a spam group in NNTP, and the messages do not seem to be marked as such). So I think this really is just a bug.

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> And frankly, if I were a list moderator and software asked me through
> this sort of coincidence whether a mail should be delivered or not and a
> glance at it shows nothing but insults, wild accusations, threats and so
> on for the umpteenth time, I'd consider twice clicking "Accept".
> Whether or not I ultimately did so, this would likely contribute to the
> delay.

I do not disagree, but please let's not rehash all of that again.

-Peff