Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 15:01, Ethan Furman wrote:
> The only thing changing is what happens if someone posts /directly/ to 
> the mailing list (not through gmane, etc).

Is the mailing list software able to make that distinction? I thought
that was on gmane's end.