From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-06-15T16:08:39+09:00
Subject: [Gateway ML->NG]  Sam


(For Dennis, mainly)

Last weekend (12-14), I didn't notice any dropped ML messages.

Between June 01-15 there are 10 ML msgs from Sam Roberts, but
only one of them made the NG.
That one is from his certicom.com account.

   Message-Id: <20040604152659.GA25134@certicom.com>
   X-Mail-Count: 102383

The other nine are from his uniserve.com account and there
is a trailing dot in the Message-Id: which may be upsetting
the g/way news host?  Example:

   Message-Id: <20040615020507.GA806@ensemble.local.>
   X-Mail-Count: 103617


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The Message-Id: headers appear in the ruby-talk archive
uniformly with a lower case 'd' and appear to be remailed
in that form.  Strictly, this doesn't conform to RFC
(which specifies Message-ID:) and it destroys many checks
because servers which generate ID: or Id: cannot be
distinguished by looking in the archive - and it forces
the use of some case-insensitive Regexen.
However, both seem to be widely accepted and created by
mail/news servers.
The first two personal emails I checked (from different
addresses), both had Id: .
If the g/way news host was rejecting Id:, I feel that /no/
ML would get to NG.  I just mention it for information.

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In the other direction, a NG post from Dan Tapp was not
received by email (ML), although it is in the ML archive:
If one list subscriber did receive this, my mail server
must have dropped it.  Otherwise, perhaps, it was not
remailed.

   Subject: Ruby /.'ted                         (Opens thread)
   Message-ID: <40Qyc.64500$tI2.13110@fed1read07>
   Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:39:45 -0700

      ( http://www.ruby-talk.org/103381 )


daz