[MapServer-dev] Mailing List Issues

[Seth G]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the background details, and it's reassuring the MapServer lists aren't badly affected. 

Hopefully, mailing lists will continue to be supported by SAC. I know there is a push to use Discourse, but I can't see a whole online community moving across to a new platform without losing lots of members. 

Seth

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2026, at 1:32 PM, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> My apologies for the delay in my response, I was still sleeping when you 
> sent this message.
>
> Frank and I manage the -users and -dev lists.
>
> I was also affected by this problem: I believe that my email address is 
> blocked from all OSGeo lists currently.
>
> Background: this happened when SAC switched mail server hosts, and OSGeo 
> was blacklisted when the IP addresses changed.   I first saw mention of 
> this in December through 
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-December/016916.html
>
> I have now checked MapServer-users and MapServer-dev, and there was only 
> one address blocked ("no reason: B").  I removed that now.
>
> I am also an admin of gdal-dev, and that list is a whole different 
> story, as there are hundreds of addresses with that problem.  Of course, 
> it is hard to know if that is a valid block due to bounces, or was it 
> due to this mail server switch.   In any case, I went through the 
> gdal-dev subscriber list this morning and removed those blocked 
> addresses.  (I will now send out test messages, and hopefully catch & 
> remove the bounces email addresses sent back to me)
>
> Sorry for the hassle, but, put plainly: my address is also now blocked 
> from all OSGeo lists due to that episode, I hope that SAC tackles this, 
> through a batch update for all OSGeo mailing lists.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2026-01-23 5:10 a.m., Seth G via MapServer-dev wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I stopped receiving email from the gdal-dev mailing list on December 5th last year. I also missed several mapserver-users posts for around a week at the same time (although this restarted).
>> 
>> It appears some subscribers were blocked without warning / notice and had to be manually unblocked - see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3506#ticket
>> 
>> I'm wondering if the same has happened to anyone on the mapserver-users and mapserver-dev (not that they'll get this email if they have..)? I'm not sure who has admin access to check. I'll also request access from OSGeo SAC so I can check myself.
>> 
>> Seth
>> 
>
>
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