From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-01-09T20:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Posting to comp.lang.ruby, due to gateway to Ruby-Talk


Ronald Fischer wrote:

> (3) I posted a followup to that message using GoogleGroups. That
> message was of course directed to the ruby-talk mailing list directly,
> not to  comp.lang.ruby, since the message I was replying to, (2), was
> also to the Mailing List, and Googlegroups can't know from this context
> that it should post the reply to comp.lang.ruby.
>
> (4) Then I received a message from the ruby-talk mailing list that I am
> not a member of the Ruby-Talk list and hence are not allowed to send
> postings there.

there are two google groups, one is an archive of the newsgroup and the
other an archive the mailing-list called ruby-talk-google. which did
you use? if its the later, it shouldn't let you post unless you
subscribe first (via google groups).

> The problem seems that though everyone can post to the ruby-talk mailing
> list via comp.lang.ruby gateway, only members can post to the mailing
> list directly. This has the consequence that a message posted to
> comp.lang.ruby can be read by subscribers to ruby-talk AND
> comp.lang.ruby,
> but followups to such a posting don't necessarily show up in the
> comp.lang.ruby usegroup. In other words: The gateway between
> comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk is one way only.
>
> Maybe there is an error how that gateway between comp.lang.ruby and
> ruby-talk is configured? How can one find out who is responsible for
> operating this gateway?

not sure who's running the gateway, but king james II wrote it ;-)

T.