Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating aself.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Aahz" <aa..craft.com> wrote:

> While that's also a bug in Mailman (I have a long-standing to-do item to
> fix that), there are also plenty of posts that simply aren't showing up
> in c.l.py.  As I said, I'm pretty sure (based on what was happening with
> c.l.py.announce) that it's some kind of weird problem with the mail->news
> gateway with MIME posts.

I have lately had some posts returned with a "seems to be forged" message.
Two reasons for that:
- first is if I use the smtp server from our local telco - saix - then there is
  no apparent relationship between where the message comes from and
  where it comes from, if you follow my Irish...
- Second is if the same telco assigns me an IP that has been put on a list
  of bad boy IPs.

So it is kind of pot luck if you see this message or not.

- Hendrik