Re: suggestion re website "Mailing Lists" page

gabor@hojtsy.hu (Gabor Hojtsy) wrote in <006c01c26a3d$5d996b00$3cc14d3e@mia>: >> The "Mailing Lists" page: >> http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php >> should make it clear that the newsgroups are just >> an interface to the mailing lists, and that in order >> to be able to post messages via the new.php.net newsserver, >> you must do so using an "approved" email address, or else >> use an email address where you can receive a confirmation >> email. >> Either that, or suggest that for their first 'posting', >> people send an email to the list in question(rather than >> 'posting' via the newsserver), and that after that, they >> can 'post' via the newsserver, but they must make sure >> to use the email address that was approved as a result >> of their first email 'posting'. > >AFAIK posting through the news server works for the first >time, if you have a valid email address. You'll receive >a confirmation mail, what you need to reply to... > >Goba That's my point - it will(I think) work IF your email address is valid. In my case, it didn't work because I posted using a munged email address(i.e. dpatton@remove-for-nospam.confluence.org), which of course isn't a real address. Note that this practice is quite common, so anyone posting for the first time to news.php.net _may_ find that their posts do not show up, but have no idea why. -- Dave Patton Canadian Coordinator the Degree Confluence Project http://www.confluence.org 49°16'07"N 123°09'07"W