On 10/20/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19/10/2007, Adrian Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > How reliably does the [email protected] mailing list work? A few days
> > ago
> > i've posted a question that was re-sent quickly to everybody , and also
> > received
> > some good answers very quickly.
>
> I've had myself randomly unsubscribed from the mailing list. Though in
> that case, I would have thought the mailing list 'server' would reply
> and say I am not allowed to send messages, but it never does that.
> To this day, if I don't get a response within about 2-3 days, I check
> on GMANE to see if the message actually got through. Lately it's been
> working fine for me again.
It's a good idea to verify the message with Gmane.
It looks like i am still subscribed, but my original question didn't make it
through the list.
Also, it looks like sometimes i'm receiving messages in batches : the last
9-10 threads arrived during this night all , after at least one day
with no list
activity.
> > However, yesterday i've posted another question which didn't appear yet.
> > Do each posting need to be accepted manually by a moderator ?!
>
> As far as I know, only HTML messages get moderated. So the bottom
> line, *always* send emails in plain text! :-) You get the same
> message across, it's smaller in size and everybody can read it.
I prefer text emails as well :)
Best wishes,
Adrian Maier
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