Re: vger not relaying some of Junio's messages today?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2017, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpoj3q8jj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170127040139.wz7xmizccjigz5ui@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:57:53AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>
>> I noticed both of these are are missing from my archives
>> (which rejects messages unless they come from vger):
>> 
>> <xmqq1svp7lcs.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
>> <xmqqefzp1d1x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
>
> I don't have them either, so presumably vger ate them (I usually delete
> my cc copies after reading and keep the list ones, and I now have
> neither).
>
>> Not sure if there's something up with vger or Junio's setup because
>> other messages (even from Junio) are getting through fine.
>
> Sporadic failures, especially on a single topic, imply that something in
> the content may triggered the taboo filter (though often that takes out
> replies, too, which this doesn't seem to have done).

I think I figured this out yesterday.

It was a dot somewhere in the name of a recipient on To:/Cc: line that is NOT double-quoted. For this thread, brian's human-readable name "brian m. carlson" was double-quoted in the original I responded to and it also was double-quoted in my response. But there was another recipient with a dot after the middle initial, which was NOT double-quoted in the original.

My response seems to have been eaten because that name was not double-quoted. I saw that happen yesterday in another thread with the same recipient, and resent with the only change to double-quote that name and it went through.