From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T02:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/1

On 7/7/06, Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There seems to be a problem with the web interface to ruby-talk at
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/.
> >
> > For example, http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/1
> > returns an email from Robert Klemme dated 15 Dec 2005 and not Matz's
> > announcement of the list.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this and are there plans to fix it?
>
> See the discussion here:
>
> http://www.codecomments.com/archive327-2005-12-733877.html
>
> Forgive the link to an ugly, ad-heavy site, but it was the only source
> I could find that had most of the conversation pulled together. Both
> blade and google groups have the threading for that period
> understandably mixed up. You can also read here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/104543856edfdd53/0b53da70fb67a86f?tvc=1#0b53da70fb67a86f
>
> for a little more of the story. The first part of that thread is a
> separate discussion; as I mentioned, google groups got the threads
> mixed up. Start at message "7" in that link.
>
> Anyways, it was due to a glitch in the mailing list that overwrote
> some of the older messages in the archive. Wayne Vucenic seems to
> have, or at least had, backups of those messages, but it appears no
> one's done the restore yet.
>
> Jacob Fugal
>
Thanks for the info. It would indeed be a shame if they were lost.

Regards,
Sean