Changes to xapian-discuss

[James Aylett]

Hi everyone. We've been having increasing problems with GMail delivery 
recently, so one of the things we're trying in order to improve matters 
is to switch to reply munging, which means we're in control of 
DKIM/DMARC status rather than relying on every individual repliers' 
setup (and hoping we don't break signatures or violate SPF rules at the 
same time).

This means that all mail through the list should now come from the list 
address. 20 years ago this was a regular and heated debate on mailing 
lists, but given the volume of traffic we don't expect it to be a 
problem. (That said: do please double check if you mean to reply to 
someone off-list that you aren't accidentally replying to the list instead.)

I'll be resubscribing a number of gmail addresses that were removed 
automatically when gmail delayed all of them repeatedly. We're hoping 
that they will survive better now, but gmail prioritises various aspects 
of experience such that it isn't actually that good at receiving email 
from outside the mainstream operators. (I have a gmail account that 
simply doesn't receive emails from some companies - they don't even 
appear in spam.) If you rely on getting Xapian news in a timely fashion, 
I'd recommend either not using gmail or perhaps switching to digests. 
You can also check in on the web archives[1], which are public.

[1] https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/

James