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Author: Peter Olson
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To: Nuno Magalhães, Jaromil
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] recommendation for consideration: keep as close to debian as possible
> On February 16, 2015 at 5:19 PM Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@???>
> wrote:


> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> > dear Nuno,
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming i don't get moderated out (unlike the resident troll),
> >
> > the reason why your emails are arriving delayed is due to your email
> > you subscribed,


> I love using email addresses with "+" in then when subscribing to
> stuff to see if they consider the email address "invalid". Then i
> forgot i had used it :( My bad.


A popular *nix convention is that abc+xyz@??? is delivered to
abc@??? where the +xyz is a hint of no significance at all to the mail
delivery agent.

Some MDAs do this, some don't.

I hadn't considered this previously, but the address matching in a list server
probably can't understand this when making such a filter decision without some
external guidance (RFC/config-etc).

Peter Olson