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|    Wil Evers to Wil Evers    |
|    Re: comp.lang.c++.moderated experiencing    |
|    06 Sep 12 01:46:15    |
      From: bouncer@dev.null              Wil Evers wrote:              > We recently discovered that our moderation software is having problems       > forwarding approved articles written by authors using a gmail.com       > email address to the NNTP/Usenet infrastructure. As a result, some       > articles appear to have been lost.              As it turns out, an anti-spam measure by the provider hosting the       moderation software is blocking outgoing messages containing gmail.com       and a few other major email domains (hotmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com,       aol.com, earthlink.net) in the 'From:' header.              For now, to ensure approved articles are propagated, we've installed a       filter that rewrites the email addresses in the 'From:' header.       '@gmail.com' is changed to '@googlemail.com'; the other blacklisted       domains we know about are changed to a non-existing domain name. We       hope to find a more permanent solution soon.              On behalf of the moderation team,              - Wil                     --        [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ]        [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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