mailing list losing mail?

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jan 11 23:03:56 UTC 2010


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Ed Greshko wrote:
>> j.halifax . wrote:
>>> May be something is really missing. I sent an e-mail about not activating LAN Cards after reboots, but only one response has come. I guess that it is not so complicated issue that none could help?!
>>>   
>> No.  The fact that people pick and choose what issues to respond to is
>> no indication that maybe some mails are going missing.  FWIW, I've never
>> had a email from this list go missing....unless I screwed up my
>> filters.  :-)
>>
> You sort of bring up a good point, filtering the the list header rather than the 
> origin is probably highly desirable, and less likely to need a change. I do get 
> lists which don't provide such a header, but fortunately not from Redhat in ary 
> guise.
> 
> I guess that's a hint if people are changing their filters anyway. ;-)
> 
And of course this time they changed the list-ID header... Sure would be nice if 
the List-ID just told you what list it was without a song and dance...

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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