From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-05-28T22:41:16+09:00
Subject: Re: fixing the gateway (was: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?)

> Hi --
> 
> [Note: In response to Dave's comments I have change the subject
> line to something a little more positive :-]
> 
> OK, here's what Dennis most recently wrote me, summarizing what his
> NNTP admins told him (pertaining to the mail-> news direction):
> 
> > - Tracing messages along their Path throughout the NNTP universe is
> >   practically impossible
> > - There are NNTP hosts which reject certain messages
> > - It is not possible to see if a certain message got 
> rejected unless the
> >   host who rejected it is your direct up-/downstream
> > - None of our up-/downstreams ever rejected messages from the
> >   Ruby-lang/c.l.r-gateway
> 
> You can see the roots of my pessimism :-) but I put this out there in
> case it suggests anything to anyone, or a starting point for applying
> Dave's testing scenario to the mail->news direction.  

Maybe the answer is to figure out if there's a news admin we can deal
with (perhaps even the good folks at Google) to ensure that, at a very
minimum, the messages make it into the Google Groups archive? I would
imagine that propagation from Google Groups is pretty good.

-austin
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