linux-scsi list filtering

linux-scsi list filtering

[Douglas Gilbert]

Twice yesterday I tried to reply to the "spin down idle
SATA disks" thread. The first was sent to the original
poster and cc-ed to this list. When my reply didn't appear
after 12 hours, I resent my reply directly to this list.
Neither appeared on the linux-scsi list (at least not via
my subscription or the marc.theaimsgroup.com archive).

Obviously the original poster received my mail as he has
recently responded to the list. That tends to suggest
that incoming mail is being filtered by the linux-scsi
list.

Is anyone else experiencing this type of behaviour?

Doug Gilbert

Re: linux-scsi list filtering

[Matti Aarnio]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:00:42AM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:00:42 +1000
> From:	Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
> To:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Cc:	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com
> Subject: linux-scsi list filtering
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

You really should ask this kind of questions from
   <postmaster@vger.kernel.org>
as you can read at  http://vger.kernel.org/


Possibly it is this one:

   Subject: BOUNCE linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org:
            global taboo header: /charset=.*windows-/i


That pattern bites on quite a lot of spams and viruses, but
unfortunately also on some amount of legitimate list messages.

Reviewing past weeks worth of monitoring logs, it does appear
that of 10-20 daily hits with that patterns there is always
also some other pattern present when it genuinely is spam/virus/junk.

I will now remove that block, and we shall see, what
leaks thru...  (if any.)


> Twice yesterday I tried to reply to the "spin down idle
> SATA disks" thread. The first was sent to the original
> poster and cc-ed to this list. When my reply didn't appear
> after 12 hours, I resent my reply directly to this list.
> Neither appeared on the linux-scsi list (at least not via
> my subscription or the marc.theaimsgroup.com archive).
> 
> Obviously the original poster received my mail as he has
> recently responded to the list. That tends to suggest
> that incoming mail is being filtered by the linux-scsi
> list.
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing this type of behaviour?
> 
> Doug Gilbert

/Matti Aarnio -- one of  <postmaster@vger.kernel.org>

Re: linux-scsi list filtering

[Bryan Henderson]

>   Subject: BOUNCE linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org:
>            global taboo header: /charset=.*windows-/i

I'm guessing this rule means to bounce the relevant email, i.e. to send an 
email to the originator saying it wasn't accepted.

If so, the rule and ones like it aren't behind the problems that have been 
described, wherein the mail just went into a black hole.

Do the filters drop mail without response?

RE: linux-scsi list filtering

[Tony Battersby]

> Obviously the original poster received my mail as he has
> recently responded to the list. That tends to suggest
> that incoming mail is being filtered by the linux-scsi
> list.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this type of behaviour?

I had this problem last week when replying to someone with a list of
relevant URLs where one could find more information about a legitimate
topic.  After the message didn't appear on linux-scsi, I resent it
without the URLs, but even the resend without URLs never made it.  I'm
not sure what blocked the second message, but later in the day I sent a
message on a different topic that got through, using the same mailer
settings.

Anthony J. Battersby
Cybernetics