On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fairly often, I see a reply to a message (on debian-user) but didn't see / > receive the original post. > > This is an example. > > Any clues? I guess there could be a variety of causes, one might be that > someone posted the original to a different list or directly to a person on the > list and the reply was directed to the list. > > It's not an urgent matter, just something that has tugged at the back of my > brain for a while.
I've noticed the same thing as a GMail user. I often see folks on the list reply to a message and I receive the reply before the original message arrives in my Inbox. It seems like GMail stores some emails before forwarding them to the next MTA or MUA. I guess -- and it is merely a guess -- GMail is holding the message in a type of quarantine to classify the message [as legitimate or spam]. > On Tuesday, April 28, 2026 11:48:29 AM Felix Miata wrote: > > CGS composed on 2026-04-28 14:59 (UTC): > > > Is it just me, or has this mailing list died? > > > > I'm on lots of mailing lists besides this one. Traffic on most has > > drastically fallen off in recent months and/or years. I think Felix's observation is a different one. I think GMail is rejecting a lot more messages as spam using headers like DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. Jeff
