Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Admittedly, this was a few years back that we ran into this problem, and > since then we've just routinely whitelisted email from Optus and Bigpond, > curse their black souls for making spam prevention just that little bit > harder. So I su

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Matthew Lefavor
Well, it seems like the last message I posted did post in time. I'll keep tabs on the issue and email the postmaster if it persists. Matthew Lefavor On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> One relevant piece of inf

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:57:47 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Is it possible that the name "Matthew Lefavor" has been added to a >> greylist or something? > > That's not how greylisting works. Greylisting is a scheme used to > eliminate spam. The server knows what email addresses it's received >

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Is it possible that the name "Matthew > Lefavor" has been added to a greylist or something? That's not how greylisting works. Greylisting is a scheme used to eliminate spam. The server knows what email addresses it's received mail from in the last little while (say, the last month). When it g

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> One relevant piece of information: I have subscribed and unsubscribed to >> different combinations of these lists several times over the past year, and >> particularly over the past few months (as I was trying to manage the flow of >> emai

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Matthew Lefavor
(Sorry to reply-all, but in this case I think the direct messages will get to people on this thread 12 hours earlier than the others.) Well, I have had this problem with both my work email (matthew dot lefavor _at_ nasa dpt gov) and my Gmail account. Since this doesn't happen to all users (nor all

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:30:51 -0400 - timestamp of your mail > Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:30:51 -0700 (PDT) - you posted it via HTTP > Thu, 18 Jul 2013 22:31:39 +0200 (CEST) - it reached python.org > Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:56:14 +0200 (CEST) - it began delivery to my address > Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:56:15 -

Re: Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Matthew Lefavor wrote: > All: > > I've been having trouble with all three Python mailing lists (python-list, > python-dev, python-ideas). This has been going on for about a month. > Whenever I post, it takes hours for my messages to be posted on the list. I > first

Messages to Python-List aren't posting

2013-07-19 Thread Matthew Lefavor
All: I've been having trouble with all three Python mailing lists (python-list, python-dev, python-ideas). This has been going on for about a month. Whenever I post, it takes hours for my messages to be posted on the list. I first thought it was an issue with my work email server, but moving to gm