[advocacy-discuss] how these mailing lists work

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Miles Nordin wrote:
> I've been subscribing to the lists with mailman, on pages like this:
>
>  http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/nfs-discuss
>
> I posted a couple silly things to drivers-discuss with no problems,
> and to here (if you're reading this), but when I post to nfs-discuss,
> nothing happens.  I don't get a copy of my message.  I don't get a
> bounce, nor a mailman awaiting-moderator-approval message.  I don't
> see my post appear in the mailman archives.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
> Does anyone know why it's happening? Are there different kinds of
> lists with different posting policies?  If so, is there a central
> place to learn the names of the lists and the posting policy of each?
>

Miles,

Could you resend the message you sent to nfs-discuss and Cc me?

Sounds like something triggered Mailman's auto-discard function
for that message, which can happen in a few different ways and
places. I'm copying the owners of the nfs-discuss too in case
they can shed any light.

Eric