jidanni wrote:
Follow the exciting details in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/12234
The only Gmane reading users who will see the (more than half of) Platonides' posts that were marked as spam are the users who use the Gmane NNTP interface. The users of the web Gmane interface won't see them, as per http://gmane.org/spam.php .
and those not using gmane at all.
And for us Gmane NNTP users who trusted Gmane's judgement on what was spam, and put things into their noffle.conf etc. NNTP clients' configuration files like filter group=gmane.spam.detected action=discard well, now we must do e.g., $ wget -O - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-April.txt.gz | grepmail -h Platonides|grepmail -h jidanni for every month, for every mailing list, to find all the valuable replies we missed. (matching From:.*Platonides.*References:.*@jidanni.org)
I'm no expert on nntp clients, but wouldn't removing the filter and reconnecting to gmane update your client with those messages, which would be marked as unread? Remember that gmane doesn't expire the posts.