When a mail is sent to one of the argouml mailing lists and it is not automatically approved, it is sent to the moderator for approval.
The moderator approves or rejects it by sending a mail to one of the mail addresses in the mail he receives.
If the moderator rejects the mail, a message can be sent to the original poster.
Here is a suggestion of such a message that Linus Tolke uses on the argouml dev list:
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Hello!
You have written a mail to an ArgoUML mailing list. Your
mail was not automatically approved by the mailing list
mechanism but instead sent to me, the moderator, for
approval. Most likely, this is because you are not
subscribed to the list or the from field of the sent
mail was different from the mail address that is
subscribed to the list so the list mechanism don't
consider you as subscribed.
As a moderator, I assume that this was a misstake.
Either a misstake to send the mail to the list in the
first place since the list don't accept mails from
non-subscribers, or a misstake in using the incorrect
from address. For this reason I have not approved you
mail for the mailing list. If the misstake was that you
had forgot to subscribe, please subscribe and resend the
mail. If the misstake was that you used the incorrect
from address, please resend the mail using the correct
from address.
If this is not a misstake, I assume that this is because
you are subscribed to the mailing list with one mail
address and wants to (or has to) send mails using another.
This is possible, however some special allowing is
possible. If this is the case, please send me a mail at
linus@tigris.org explaining this and including your two
mail addresses, and then send the mail immediately again.
Then I will approve the mail and allow your mail address
so that future postings will go through immediately.
There are two reasons for not allowing posts to the list
without being a member. The first one is from a spam
fighting perspecting. The ArgoUML mailing lists attract
a fair amount of commercial messages and scams that we
don't want to resend to all list members. The second one
is that answers to your postings on the list are always
sent back to the list. Unless you are a member you will
miss it. For this reason, if you become a member on the
list just to send a single mail, please linger on the
list for a couple of weeks to receive any answers or
follow-ups to your mail.
I hope that you accept the policy and the measure taken
by me, the moderator and wish you welcome to the ArgoUML
project and the mailing list.
/Linus, moderator of the mailing list
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