From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-12-02T01:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning


James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Trans wrote:
>
> > Someone recently mentioned missing posts. I just did a comparsion of
> > comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk-google and indeed the usenet is missing
> > posts.
>
> Here's the information I have on this currently:
>
> *  I rewrote the entire Gateway this last week, so anything before
> that is history.  The news-to-email side is already deployed.  My
> email-to-news code is complete, but not deployed.  (Our SysAdmin will
> get to it soon now.)  If you raise issues, please make sure they are
> recent.
> * I now have very detailed logs on everything the Gateway does, so
> please be specific.  For example, tell me which messages are missing,
> not just that they are.
> * Our Usenet host does not allow us to post HTML emails.  This is not
> changing.  (I'm not bothered by this because I do not believe anyone
> should be sending HTML email to Ruby Talk.)
> * Our Gateway is an NNTP <-> email Gateway.  There has been at least
> one instance of a Usenet post using ancient header formatting
> predating NNTP.  These messages are not supported.

Have a look at recent topic: Wisdom of including Rakefile in releases.
The 2nd post from Jason Roelofs appears to be missing.

T.