[syslog-ng] gmane posting problem

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 14:53 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
> My previous message that I sent to this list I tried to send three
> different times via GMANE, which is subscribed to this list. Usually I
> have no issue posting to lists through this method, but for some reason,
> my message was not getting posted.
> 
> Typically what happens is you post to the list via gmane, the gmane
> autoresponder sends you an email to confirm that you are a legit person
> and not a spammer, and then you reply and then you are allowed to post
> to the list. I did all that, but my messages were not coming
> through. Perhaps the list is configured in a strange way where these
> messages are getting rejected?

Well, only subscribers are allowed to post, and non-member emails are
dropped. Otherwise loads of emails got sitting in the administrative
queue. The spam problem got seriously out-of-hand otherwise.

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Bazsi