From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753596Ab1JRTaf (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:35 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:32844 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753481Ab1JRTae (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:29:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20111018.152923.55645219498274462.davem@davemloft.net> To: greg@kroah.com Cc: hch@infradead.org, jwboyer@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update email address for stable patch submission From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20111018141350.GB17101@kroah.com> References: <20111018011638.GQ1165@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20111018065852.GA6056@infradead.org> <20111018141350.GB17101@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:13:50 -0700 > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:58:52AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:16:39PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> > The stable@kernel.org email address has been replaced with the >> > stable@vger.kernel.org mailing list. Change the stable kernel rules to >> > reference the new list instead of the semi-defunct email alias. >> >> Does this mean it already stopped working? I recently sent pathces >> there but neither got an ACK nor a bounce or similar. > > It should have bounced. It doesn't bounce, it's a mailing list looping posting protection at vger.kernel.org which triggers because it sees certain email header fields in the forwarded emails from kernel.org that make it look like a list loop. We respond to such things silently so we don't exacerbate the loop.