On Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 13:56 Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:50:51PM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > > > > it seems that once in a while the confirmation messages are not > set, or get lost. Big deal. You can check the archive to see if the server > received your message, and if it did, you can assume the server sent it to > all of us. > > > > ARCHIVE > https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/ > > Yes, exactly. Check your spam filters etc. in case messages to you are > eaten by your own mail system. Mail deliver to & from the PGLAF server that > hosts lists.cpunks.org seems to be robust (i.e., I get notifications > about various bounces etc., and there are surprisingly few problems). > > Note especially that GMail and probably a few other web-based interfaces > *refuse* to show you a copy of your own posting, even if it arrives in your > inbox. > > At https://lists.cpunks.org you can use your personal subscriber password > (or ask for it to be set/sent), to turn on an automated acknowledgment for > every message you send. There are a few other settings you can tweak there, > too. > > But the bottom line is: check the archive, above (no login/password > required), to confirm whether your message was posted to the list. > > There used to be a few situations where messages were silently rejected > (such as when having too many cc: or to: recipients). I think we have now > set things so that anything that is received, but not posted, will generate > some sort of message back to the posting address. In other words, rejection > or moderation or other failures to post SHOULD result in an email back to > you explaining what happened.
Thanks a lot for being so didactic and patient, guys. Love you both very much!! <3 Hope the complaints cease now. Greg is doing a great work here, exactly like Riad and all the others did before him. <3
