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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:55 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
It sounds so perfect: you can post your snarky
comments to the mailing list
without having to really be subscribed. Just use this handy form!
It turns out that Gmane has two rigid limits in its posting form: (1) lines
can't be longer than 80 characters and (2) you can't have "too much"
quoted
material in your reply. These aren't warnings, mind you, they're imposed
limits that prevent the mail from being submitted.
Yes, I also use Gmane sometimes and find these rules very annoying.
And it now appears that it also mangles subject lines
containing quotation
marks.
Yes, I've seen that bug too, though never reported it. You should
report it to
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/ if nobody else has
ever reported it.
A bigger problem is that wikitech-l seemed to silently discard my
posts made through Gmane until I subscribed. IIRC someone said this
is because they receive such a huge volume of spam.
But it would be much nicer if they sent me back the standard
Mailman-generated rejection message instead of just silently
discarding my message. That way I would have some instant feedback on
why my message never made it to the list.
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