On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:41:26 +0000, Bart Van Assche [off-list ref]
wrote:

On Sat, 2018-03-10 at 14:14 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:

quoted

The two patches I sent were supposed to be alternative solutions; see
https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=152063671005295&w=2 for the
introduction (I seem to have messed up the headers, so the mails didn’t
end up threaded properly).  

The two patches arrived in my inbox several minutes before the cover
letter. In the e-mail header of the cover letter I found the following:

X-Greylist: delayed 1810 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri,
09 Mar 2018 18:05:08 EST

Does this mean that the delay happened due to vger server's anti-spam
algorithm?

That’s right, the greylisting part of its anti-spam measures.

Regards,

Stephen