Re: Misc. as part of usage testing

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.

> 
> 
> 


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