John Fitzsimons writes: > >This message was delivered by email from Gmane to mailman. It was > >apperently posted via NNTP to Gmane by the poster and then mailed by > >Gmane to the list. > > Hopefully Gmane waits for the reply to the list email before it > "accepts" the post.
I'm not sure what you're asking, but I'm pretty sure it is not the case. There is no "reply" to wait for. Both email and netnews are designed as store and forward. The process is - Someone connects to your system. - She sends you a message. - You accept the message. - You make sure it is safely stored on your system. - You tell the system you got it from "OK, I've got it, you can stop worrying now." - Finally, you end the connection. However, at this stage there is no sense in which anybody knows that delivery to the addressee will succeed. Now you try to send it to the next hop, following the same procedure as above. If it is refused at any stage, the last system to have accepted the message will send an error message back to the author (there are some details I'm omitting, and differences between mail and news, but that's the basic idea). The "accept, store, forward" process happens both at the poster -> Gmane, and the Gmane -> Mailman stages. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org