jidanni wrote:
> Follow the exciting details in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/12234
> 
> The only Gmane reading users who will see the (more than half of)
> Platonides' posts that were marked as spam are the users who use the
> Gmane NNTP interface. The users of the web Gmane interface won't see
> them, as per http://gmane.org/spam.php .

and those not using gmane at all.

> And for us Gmane NNTP users who trusted Gmane's judgement on what was
> spam, and put things into their noffle.conf etc. NNTP clients'
> configuration files like
>   filter group=gmane.spam.detected action=discard
> well, now we must do e.g.,
> $ wget -O - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-April.txt.gz 
> |
> grepmail -h Platonides|grepmail -h jidanni
> for every month, for every mailing list, to find all the valuable
> replies we missed. (matching From:.*Platonides.*References:[email protected])

I'm no expert on nntp clients, but wouldn't removing the filter and
reconnecting to gmane update your client with those messages, which
would be marked as unread?
Remember that gmane doesn't expire the posts.

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