Hi --

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> On May 28, 2004, at 7:55, David A. Black wrote:
> > Update: I'm now seeing a lot of news posts that are not making it to
> > the mail side.  I'd thought it was more the other direction, but it
> > seems to be both.
> 
> So, see if these missing articles are making it to the news server used 
> by the gateway. If so, then the fault lies with the gateway software, 
> and it can be fixed. If not, then the fault lies with Usenet, and is 
> somewhat intractable.

Of course, right after posting that, I got an influx of about 30+
messages from the news side to the mailing list :-)  

Anyway, I'm trying to get in touch with Dennis.  My impression from
what he's said over the past couple of months is that we'd already
reached the intractable problem phase (which is what led to my
original post in this thread), but I've asked him to check the log
files and the server content to get an up-to-date sense of what's
happening (and not happening).  I may also do some tests, just to have
a current dossier of tested scenarios.

On a meta-note, to everyone reading: I seem to have been misunderstood
rather widely on this matter.  Please understand that I am NOT against
a news/mail mirror; I am frustrated by the illusion of one, so that I
don't know whom I'm addressing, whether I've really answered a
question, whether I'm participating in a discussion or not, etc.

Moreover, my original post was not made on an impulse; I didn't raise
the question of the gateway until I'd been communicating with Dennis,
the gateway maintainer, for 2.5 months, and been advised by him that
he and his NNTP admins had checked everything they could think of.  It
may turn out that they missed something and that it's fixable, and
that would be great.  But either way, please do me the kindness of
believing that I actually put some thought and effort (and even
optimism) into the problem in the weeks and months before posting that
original message.


David

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