From: Intransition Date: 2012-04-20T22:10:48+09:00 Subject: Google Group is Back ------=_Part_9_26189811.1334927446007 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_10_29059177.1334927446007" ------=_Part_10_29059177.1334927446007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, like some sort of psychotic girlfriend, the Ruby-Talk Google Group is back. I was this close (*holding fingers up*) to terminating the group -- thoroughly dismayed and frustrated. Everything I had researched and tried turned up nothing. All I know for sure is that every mirrored list on Google Groups was no longer working. I spent two hours on hold with Google main office (don't ever bother calling them they simply do not answer the phone). The only clue I got at all was from Matz who said he heard that Groups was rejecting messages with List-ID header. So I was down to creating a intermediate gateway to strip out headers and pass messages along, but I really did not want to have to support that. Then lo! On the 17th, messages magically started arriving again. I have no idea what transpired over at Google. It would be interesting to know. Was it a mistake? If so, it was pretty big one that took them two months to catch and fix. Was it a plan, but they got so much flack they backed off? We might never know. But at least the service is back. As bad as Google can be in the way of support, I have found nothing remotely comparable to the usability of Google Groups. ------=_Part_10_29059177.1334927446007 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well, like some sort of psychotic girlfriend, the Ruby-Talk Google Group is= back.

I was this close (*holding fingers up*) to termin= ating the group -- thoroughly dismayed and frustrated. Everything= I had researched and tried turned up nothing. All I know for sure is that = every mirrored list on Google Groups was no longer working. I spent two hou= rs on hold with Google main office (don't ever bother calling them they sim= ply do not answer the phone). The only clue I got at all was from Matz who = said he heard that Groups was rejecting messages with List-ID header. So I = was down to creating a intermediate gateway to strip out headers and pass m= essages along, but I really did not want to have to support that. Then= lo! On the 17th, messages magically started arriving again.

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I have no idea what transpired over at Google. It would be inter= esting to know. Was it a mistake? If so, it was pretty big one that took th= em two months to catch and fix. Was it a plan, but they got so much flack t= hey backed off? We might never know. But at least the service is back. As b= ad as Google can be in the way of support, I have found nothing remotely co= mparable to the usability of Google Groups.


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