[FFmpeg-devel] Mailing List Delay

[Derek Buitenhuis]

On 7/14/2021 2:35 PM, ffmpegandmahanstreamer at lolcow.email wrote:
>> I have been bringing this up consstently for years, and been told it's
>> a "non-issue", but it is incredibly annoying.
>>
>> I am not sure if it's due to Google having issues (trust?) sending to
>> out host, or the host having trouble receiving.
>>
> That's why i use this email provider and not my main Gmail for mailing 
> lists.

Saying "don't use the largest email provider in the world because our
list is janky" isn't a goo solution.

> 
> It may be a good stopgap solution for some.
> 
>> I have also noticed, since switching to this 'new' mysertious mailing
>> list host a few years back that a chunk of ffmpeg-devel traffic gets
>> filed into spam consistently. Also very annoying - I have missed 
>> several
>> patches this way. This is not specific to GMail, for me, so far.
>>
> 
> That's because mail from "unknown" hosts might get into spam frequently. 
> You may have to explicitly whitelist the mailing list in your settings.

Also not really an acceptable solution to tell every single person this,
in my opinion.

- Derek