Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:52:24AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Some mailing list filters and/or spam filters flag mails with too many >> recipients so that they need to pass through moderation first. The >> typical threads on this list are short and have few recipients while >> longer threads, due to the list policy of adding every participants to >> the Cc, will tend to have more recipients. > > AFAIK, vger does not do anything like this. They block HTML, messages > lacking a message-id, messages over 100K, and certain taboo phrases: > > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html#taboo > > And anyway, I do not think vger is responsible here. The messages were > delivered through the list, and other archives have them. This looks > like a gmane problem. I am reading more than one list through Gmane/nntp, and in the last years it was not infrequent that delivery paused for even days and/or spurious old messages from the last day or even more were getting redelivered. > According to gmane.org, their admins will look manually at messages > flagged as spam, but I find it unlikely that they flagged several days > worth of git traffic (and when they do, I think they cross-post them > to a spam group in NNTP, and the messages do not seem to be marked as > such). So I think this really is just a bug. Quite so. In particular when other mirrors got the messages timely. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html