Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:17:03 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>, freebsd-test@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Misc. as part of usage testing Message-ID: <a1c901d8-dbf3-4d66-924e-0cb5daad15d9@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20260110184548.78f7bbd6eacbb9e507a0f0e1@gmail.com> References: <ed0b1cfc-f1f1-40e3-a628-950aeb0bf311@yahoo.com> <f50a134c-ead8-43f6-aceb-07abfc483518@yahoo.com> <db83d9d2-e74a-4008-9c7e-277c95954037@yahoo.com> <1120fc06-36c8-439f-b439-fb33703e8535@yahoo.com> <20260110174324.48bb6e44408f8ee501341561@gmail.com> <20260110184548.78f7bbd6eacbb9e507a0f0e1@gmail.com>
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On 1/10/26 07:45, Anton Shepelev wrote: > Mark, I wrote to you: > >> I read your message, but I do now know how it got here, >> because it has: >> >> To: freebsd-test@freebsd.org >> Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.test >> >> While posting via Gmane, you should only use the Newsgroups: >> header, as I do in this reply. > > While sending a message via news.gmane.io, as well as with via > any NNTP server, the To: header is not used, because it is > specific to e-mail. Gmane, however, automatically supplies it > on its end, filling with the list address. What I said about > submitting messages via Gmane still stands true: you need only > specify the newsgroup (in the Newsgroups: header). No such test has delivered a message to the news group in the following days after the test. > Gmane will > then receive your message, inject it into its own archive, and > deliver to the actual mailing list. Give it some time to appear > in the latter. I've already been monitoring for delivery for days after sending such tests. No such test had a delivery to a list occur. > > When you specify a To: header with the list's e-mail address, > Thunderbird probably submits the message twice: once via NNTP, > and once via SMTP, causing it to reach the mailinsg list > sooner, at the expense of redundant delivery by two protocols > using two accounts. See above. > > > -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhome | help
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