Ignorance and Google Groups (again)

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 17:25:55 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:15 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:06:05 -0700
> Stephen Hansen <me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:
>> Gmail and Google Groups are not one and the same. There's a number of
>> people who subscribe to the list directly, use Gmail, and don't go
>> anywhere near Google Groups.
>
> I know that.  My filter doesn't catch them.
>
>> > If anyone is interested in the procmail recipe I will be using, here it
>> > is in all it's glory.
>> >
>> > :0: Hir
>> > * ^List-Id:.*python-list.python.org
>> > * ^From:.*@gmail.com
>> > * ^Newsgroups:
>> > /dev/null
>
> As you can see, to be caught in the filter you need to have a gmail
> address and be sending through the news gateway.  People sending from
> gmail.com directly to the mailing list don't get picked up.  I'm pretty
> sure that that defines everyone using Google Groups only.  I am
> definitely open to correction though.

If you get this, you get the gmail-but-not-google-groups stuff.

Geremy Condra



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