Posts being lost and not forwarded to original list

[ted.dunning]

Several Apache projects are reporting that posts to their mailing lists made via Nabble are not being
sent to the mailing list itself.  This is very serious because the projects are seen as non-responsive
when what really is happening is that Nabble is (possibly inadvertently) hijacking the mailing list
traffic.

Here is an example of a problem report:

On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:49 AM, sebb wrote:

> I've been seeing a lot of moderation messages for JMeter user mailing
> list recently, which I rejected, asking the user to subscribe.
>
> I could not understand why there seemed to be replies to messages that
> had not been seen on the JMeter user list, but it now appears that the
> conversation "Random variables in a test script  by  sprozzy" has
> taken place entirely within Nabble [1]
>
> There is no record of the Nabble threads on our mail archives [2], nor
> within Markmail. I imagine most other mail archives are the same.
>
> What should be done about this (if anything)?
>
> [1] http://jmeter.512774.n5.nabble.com/JMeter-User-f512775.html
> [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-user/201009.mbox/browser
>

I'm experiencing the same issue.  A user on stackoverflow.com was reporting that they were getting ignored on our lists and that the project had bad support.  I dug in and it seems several nabble posted emails were never delivered and I certainly haven't seen moderation requests for any of them -- and I do occasionally see and approve nabble posts that hit moderation.

This month alone all of the following have no trace in our archives:


Oct 13, 2010

 - Custom classpath
  by kicolobo
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/Custom-classpath-tp2993807p2993807.html

 - @WebService without @Stateless
  by typhoon
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/WebService-without-Stateless-tp2993404p2993404.html

Oct 12, 2010

 - Using OpenEJB to test EJB 2.1 beans
  by David P
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/Using-OpenEJB-to-test-EJB-2-1-beans-tp2990041p2990041.html

 - HttpServletRequest in webservice
  by typhoon
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/HttpServletRequest-in-webservice-tp2969409p2969409.html

Oct 07, 2010

 - DI Overriding @EJB in ejb-jar.xml
  by MarcusDidius
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/DI-Overriding-EJB-in-ejb-jar-xml-tp2967090p2967090.html

Oct 06, 2010

 - How to configure single-threaded JMS queue listener (MDB)
  by grigory
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/How-to-configure-single-threaded-JMS-queue-listener-MDB-tp2965656p2965656.html

Oct 05, 2010

 - TransactionManager not found
  by Dick Moore
  http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/TransactionManager-not-found-tp2955623p2955623.html


User list archive:

 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openejb-users/201010.mbox/browser


If I had to guess, I'd say this started in May.  A very large percent of our list traffic comes from Nabble.  In May our list traffic, which was steadily inclining over years, dropped to half and has stayed there [1].  It hasn't been this low since 2007.  Meanwhile our google analytics are still showing increased traffic.

Hoping to get some Message-IDs from them.