From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-10-23T01:21:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ML <-> NG gateway is not working

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:49 am, Dave Thomas wrote:
> On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 05:16 US/Central, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Guy has mentioned it a couple of times now.  The gateway is not
> > functioning correctly.  It appears OK in the ML -> NG direction, but
> > not the other way around.
> >
> > I know little about this gateway, other than it's discussed in "The
> > Ruby Way" with source code included.
> >
> > Where is it run?
> >
> > Who looks after it?
> >
> > If nobody looks after it, can arrangements be made for someone to do
> > so?
>
> It's running on my box.
>
> The problem is that my ISP just seemed to change NNTP servers, and as a
> result the news posting msg ID sequence got changed. The gateway then
> decided that it didn;t need to send stuff because it had already sent
> that id.
>
> I'd love to pass this baton on to someone who has a less flaky news
> server. Any offers?

Why is there a ML -> NG gateway anyway?  It seems to me that the existence of 
the newsgroup node pretty much defeats the advantages of being able to govern 
a mailing list.  Why not just use the newsgroup and kill the mailing list?  
Or switch to a message board perhaps, and leave ruby-core as a mailing list?

	Sean O'Dell