On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:39 AM, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote: >> * I now have very detailed logs on everything the Gateway does, so >> please be specific. For example, tell me which messages are >> missing, not just that they are. > > can't we automate this? monitor/scraper? Probably not too meaningfully. Every Usenet host uses a different system for numbering posts, so the numbers wouldn't be much help to the outside world. Besides, now that I understand the Gateway code intimately, I'm hoping to get it robust enough to make problems rare. >> * Our Usenet host does not allow us to post HTML emails. This is >> not changing. (I'm not bothered by this because I do not believe >> anyone should be sending HTML email to Ruby Talk.) > > harp:~ > echo '<html><body><b>__html_2_text?__</b></body></html>' > | links -dump -stdin > __html_2_text?__ > > ?? I would much rather Ruby Talk rejected HTML emails. ;) I think they are pure evil, so it will be hard to convince me to spend much effort on them. >> I will address individual issues, as long as they are aware of all >> four points above. > > so... i have this rash... ;-) <dies laughing> OK... Gateway issues! James Edward Gray II