From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2007-10-29T04:05:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Changes in Leopard On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Bill Kelly wrote: > > From: "James Edward Gray II" >> >>>>> Me neither. Possibly an HTML post eaten by the gateway? >>>> >>>> Yes: >>>> >>>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple- >>>> Mail-18-445454026 >>> >>> I received it; it's ruby-talk: 276132. >> That's because it originated on the mailing list side. The >> gateway then submitted it to our Usenet host and they declined >> it, so it never hit comp.lang.ruby. > > I'm sure this has been asked before, so apologies for what is > almost surely a repeat question, but ... :) It's been asked, yes. We went over it again recently. See the thread "Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?" which we sort-of hijacked for a gateway discussion. > Would it be reasonable to just convert all messages to text-only > before submitting them to the Usenet host? Mostly, yes. > Essentially, I'm wondering if the situation is, > > - yes we could convert messages if someone volunteers code to do so This is pretty much it. I made the gateway code public some time ago to support people hacking on it: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway No one has stepped up yet. ;) To be fair, I think some are waiting on the TMail-based rewrite I've promised in the past. I've worked on it a bit, but just haven't finished it yet. I'll spend some time on it today and see how close I can get it… James Edward Gray II