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[Bernd Petrovitsch]

Hi!
On Die, 2011-03-01 at 12:08 +0100, Harald Becker wrote:
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> >> Is the mailing list down? ... please ignore, it's just a self test.
> > Ever read https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/#s3-15?
> 
> Did you read this: "please ignore, it's just a self test" ?

Yes, and? Do you think it's cool if now and then everyone sends test
mails to MLs (for whatever reason)?
What actually makes you believe that your email address has been removed
or mail delivery has been disabled?

Apart from that: The self-test really doesn't work: Consider the case
where you did not get an answer (yet!). Then you cannot really tell if
- you actually are not subscribed (and the mail never was sent) or
- just the mail delivery has been disabled (and the mail never was sent)
- someone in simply between dropped the mail (which is not
  RFC-compliant but ....) or
- just didn't wait long enough (and email is not and never was a "real
  time service").

So your self-test is - additional to not appropriate as it spams lots of
other mailboxes - also not working.
And mailman can send you an email per month and tell you on which MLs
the email address actually is.

Bernd
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