Re: Ada-Comment

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

The problem was not due to a "bug," but to a change of policy that were made too strict.  At that time I did not pay much attention to that thread, and I still have to dig it, so I am relying on memory and maybe what I am going to say is not 100% exact... 

If I remember correctly the problem was that a message sent via a mailing list was believed to be a spoofed message (maybe because the address in the From: field did not match the ML mailer, or something like that) and some mail servers with said "overstrict" policy rejected the message.  After few rejections, the ML server would assume that the address was not working anymore and it would unsubscribe automatically the user.

This is, more or less, as I remember it.  When I find a timeslot, I am going to dig in the mail archives, so I can be more precise.

Riccardo

On Friday, November 14, 2014 11:13:03 PM UTC+1, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> I haven't seen any lasting problems with the big providers, just smaller 
> ones. I get the list mail on my phone, for instance (which is a GMail 
> account).
> 
>                              Randy.
> 
> "mockturtle" <framefritti@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:5194f09b-8898-4bea-a97b-5961ca67beeb@googlegroups.com...
> I read on a IETF mailing list around may 2014 about  problems with mailing 
> lists and some e-mail providers (yahoo? gmail? I am not 100% sure, it has 
> been a long time...) that changed their DMARC policies and this caused the 
> (silent?) rejection of some ML messages.  It has been a long time and I do 
> not remember the details (I can dig, if you want).  Maybe is this related 
> with the Ada-Comment problem?
> 
> If this can help: I have a gmail account and I received the thread about 
> random number generation.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Riccardo
> 
> On Friday, November 14, 2014 7:18:21 AM UTC+1, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > I just noticed that a number of you got auto-deleted from Ada-Comment
> > tonight. If you didn't get a bunch of messages from it in the last week
> > about random numbers (the last on Tuesday), you've probably got a problem
> > getting mail from my systems. (Dmitry and Christoph are among the people
> > that got removed from the list).
> >
> > I changed Internet providers late last month, and that could have broken
> > some firewall rules and the like (my mail and web servers are at different
> > IPs than before, so old rules may need to be replaced). So you might want 
> > to
> > check if everything is working on your end, and resubscribe if you still
> > want to get list mail.
> >
> >                       Randy Brukardt, ARG Editor and AdaIC webmaster.