Hi --

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Sam Roberts wrote:

> Wrote "David A. Black" <dblack / wobblini.net>, on Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:15:03AM +0900:
> > The problem is... they're not.  That's what I mean about its not being
> > about the idea of mirroring per se.  In theory I'm all for it, but
> > it's a question of how many months/years/whatever we want to go on
> > with the non-working mirror.  
> 
> Aren't there a million-and-a-half mail to news gateway implementations
> in the world? Is the problem that we're using some
> written-in-ruby-but-not-quite-working gateway rather than one written in
> (horrors!) perl or python?
> 
> It seems like this kind of gatewaying is a solved problem, and we could
> save some pain by using an existing solution, and then spend time
> writing marvelous new code, rather than debugging a ruby mail-news
> gateway!

I don't think it's the gateway code.  It's worked for years, basically
until about 3-4 months ago.  My tests (fairly barebones, but anyway)
suggest that the gateway software is, in fact, passing along the
messages in question.  Something is happening further downstream.

I'm still in favor of making the separation official.  I understand
all the sentiment that it should be fixed, but I fear we're just
settling in for an indefinite period of having it not work but
thinking how nice it would be if it did.  


David

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David A. Black
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