Are we still translating things?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Aug 13 20:56:41 UTC 2014


On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:50:53 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel at sieb.net> wrote:

> On 08/13/2014 12:50 PM, Andrew Schultz wrote:
> > David Woodhouse wrote:
> >> Mail sent to trans at lists.fedoraproject.org, from the email address
> >> associated with my Fedora account, basically tell me to go away:
> >>
> >>     "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your
> >> message has been automatically rejected.  If you think that your
> >> messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list
> >> owner at trans-owner at lists.fedoraproject.org."
> >>
> >> Contacting the mailing list owner, as requested, has so far
> >> elicited no response either although it's only been 28 hours or so.
> >
> > It looks like the standard you-are-not-subscribed-to-the-list
> > rejection email.  The list itself appears to be active:
> >
> I would recommend changing the wording as, at least to me, that
> sounds like a closed list.  There is no indication that someone could
> actually send to the list if they were subscribed.

Well, I'm not sure why this is suddenly confusing. This very list you
are posting on is setup the same way (you have to subscribe to post). 

I guess the wording could be better and mention that you may need to
subscribe to post. List admins can customize the default. Might be good
to look and see if mailman3's message is similar. 

kevin
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