Re: [ECOS] newsgroup postings to this mailing list?

[Hugo Tyson <hmt at redhat dot com>]

"Nick - eCos Developer" <n_ecos@targus.net> writes:

> What is up with these strangely routed emails? They come with no subject and

...apart from that Subject: line you quoted at the end there?  Where did
that come from then? ;-)

> thus don't trigger my filter that looks for the subject containing "[Ecos]".
> Obviously they come from within redhat.com. If I had a choice, I'd prefer
> that they come the normal way.

Some people, me included, read and write ecos-discuss via news; it's a
private newsgroup within Red Hat.

[ Aside: This has the unfortunate side effect that sometimes I forget to
  kill the antispam version of my email address that obviously I use for
  general news.  But OTOH this doesn't matter, because folks should reply
  to the group, not directly to eCos developers.  End-aside. ]

We have many internal mailing lists that are like that, and I write to them
both by mail and as news depending on, well, nothing much; I can't see any
difference in the mail I get, that has been through the same gateway - this
isn't a mechanism we use only for ecos-discuss, we use it for 1000's of
messages every day internally.

Could be a bug in our mail 2 news gateway software, though, or a problem
with your header parsing software.  Can you let us know more, eg. if you
see the same problem with this message?

Could it instead be the to field that's not exactly what you expected?
Contrast these:
 Your msg> To: "Ecos - Discuss" <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
   My msg> To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
If you're looking for precisely the former in your rules, you won't
recognise the latter.

If this is all pointing out the obvious, apologies.

HTH,
	- Huge

 
> from: Hugo Tyson - hmt@redhat.com
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