From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T01:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: traits question

On Oct 5, 2006, at 10:58 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Martin Coxall wrote:
>
>>> > That looks like a UUCP bang path. The message appears to have been
>>> > sent from 1978.
>>> >
>>> > Martin
>>> where are you pulling the 1978 bit from?
>>
>> That was just a joke. 1978 or thereabouts was when usenet first
>> started shifting from UUCP to NNTP.
>>
>> I gather by the existence of the bang path that it was sent to the
>> newsgroup, not the mailing list.
>
> k.  so this is evidence that the gateway isn't working properly  
> again... ;-(

Well, the Gateway is an NNTP to mailing list mirror, so Marting  
Coxall pretty much nailed the issue.  Is that really a sign of the  
Gateway not working properly though?  I would say it's working as  
advertised.  ;)

We did look into the Gateway logs, but that message is never  
mentioned.  No success, no exception, nothing.  I'm wondering if our  
Usenet server didn't show us the message.  Fred, can you confirm that  
or tell me if I'm way off base?

James Edward Gray II