[NNTP] Interesting server behaviour

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jan 1 21:35:46 PST 2012


River Tarnell <river at RT.UK.EU.ORG> writes:
> Russ Allbery:

>> The list was set to discard mail from non-members rather than hold it
>> for moderation.  Sorry about that; I'm not sure what I was originally
>> thinking when I set it that way.  That's now fixed.

> I'm pretty sure I subscribed before I posted.  My first message had an 
> S/MIME signature though (MIME type application/x-pkcs7-signature); 
> perhaps that's why the list rejected it?

Hm.  It *shouldn't* care about that.

> I didn't get any sort of rejection message.

Yeah, non-member mail at least was set to discard.  Now it will be held
for moderation, which would result in a notification.  (I'm always leery
of that, though, and rejection, because it tends to result in a ton of
bounce-back spam.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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