From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-06-24T09:22:19+09:00 Subject: Re: disk_free_space On 6/22/06, Dave Burt wrote: > Austin wrote: > > Remember that the newsgroups comp.lang.ruby has been disconnected due > > to circumstances beyond control. > I dare say there are those whose control it is not beyond. God, for > example, Matz, if he had a reason, or even possibly James Edward Gray > II who said a week or two ago that he might have a new gateway server > in the works. Unfortunately, it isn't necessarily controllable, even for Matz or James. It is, in part, dependent upon a service provider's willingness. The original gateway went down because the host of the gateway changed from service provider A to service provider B. When signing up with provider B, they gateway host had discussed with them the possibility of doing mailing-list/newsgroup gateway and had been assured that it would be okay. When the switch was done, however, provider B reneged on this. With increasing numbers of hosting providers dropping support for Usenet, what makes you think that it would be "easy" to manage this? -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca