> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric > Christopherson via cctalk > Sent: 29 May 2019 20:46 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Post? > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:20 PM Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 29/05/19 7:07 PM, MEBA via cctalk wrote: > > > Did my post for the HP printer get posted? I haven't seen it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > Some mail systems will not send you an email that appears to be from > > yourself (I think gmail is one of these) so it can appear that your > > post has not appeared. > > > > You can also check the archive (e.g. > > http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-May/date.html ) to > > find an email - if it's in there then it was posted. > > > > My Gmail account seems to like to silently delete/not deliver mails from this > list and others I'm subscribed to. They don't end up in the spam folder, > either. Over the past few months there have been several times I've noticed > replies on this list that quoted messages that I never received the originals > of; and likewise messages that show up on the archive that don't show up in > email. > > As someone on another mailing list recently responded when I brought this > up there said: > > "It's a habit of gmail to hold back mail it thinks might be suspect, and > deliver it > to a small number of recipients, then wait to see if they mark it spam, before > delivering to more and more recipients. This can delay messages for several > days." > > ^ I'm not sure if the above is what happens to me; I do sometimes see things > arriving out of order, but I'm pretty confident there are certain messages > that just never show up. But then again my folders are so full of unread (or > partially unread) threads that I could just miss it once I forget about the > topic > and new replies aren't being posted to it anymore to bump it to the top. That does not appear to happen to me. What I do see is discrepancies between cctech and cctalk. I assume this is because the processes to make sure content is passed to the correct lists is manual. I also believe that there is some manual moderation.... > > -- > Eric Christopherson Dave G4UGM
