Maybe the discuss (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss) mailing list is the right place?
Richard On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure who this is directed at but there seem to be some glitches in > the mailing list software that manages this list. > > I notice that sometimes when I post to this list I do not always get that > message being sent to me via the list so I was wondering if I am actually > receiving every message that is posted to the list. I compared notes with > a friend of mine who also subscribes to this list and we analysed the posts > that we had both received over the past week. > > To both of our surprise we discovered that I received some posts that he > never received and vice versa. There does not appear to be any pattern as > to which posts make it into our inboxes and which don't. > > I'd say we are both receiving about 19 out of every 20 messages or slightly > less than that. We definitely established that neither of us has received > *every* message sent to the list. > > We have also all but ruled out spam filter issues as this is my Gmail > account and all spam goes into the Spam folder and they certainly haven't > been ending up in there. Similarly he has a POP3 account and actually has > opted to receive *all* spam sent to him which he then uses an Outlook > message rule to place it in his Junk folder. > > Is anyone else experiencing this? If you are, you probably don't realise > it. I only noticed because a couple of my posts didn't come back from the > list. > > Felix
