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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:55 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:

> It sounds so perfect: you can post your snarky comments to the mailing list
> without having to really be subscribed. Just use this handy form!
>
> It turns out that Gmane has two rigid limits in its posting form: (1) lines
> can't be longer than 80 characters and (2) you can't have "too much" quoted
> material in your reply. These aren't warnings, mind you, they're imposed
> limits that prevent the mail from being submitted.

Yes, I also use Gmane sometimes and find these rules very annoying.

> And it now appears that it also mangles subject lines containing quotation
> marks.

Yes, I've seen that bug too, though never reported it.  You should
report it to http://news.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/ if nobody else has
ever reported it.

A bigger problem is that wikitech-l seemed to silently discard my
posts made through Gmane until I subscribed.  IIRC someone said this
is because they receive such a huge volume of spam.

But it would be much nicer if they sent me back the standard
Mailman-generated rejection message instead of just silently
discarding my message.  That way I would have some instant feedback on
why my message never made it to the list.

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