Hello There seems to be a problem how the newsgroupd comp.lang.ruby is handled. Here a concrete example to demonstrate it: (1) I have posted a message to comp.lang.ruby via Newsoffice (a web based Newsreader, http://www.newsoffice.de). You can see this posting for example at http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/6132dc5ece61114f?dmode=source&hl=de From the header of this posting, one can see that there is a gateway involved, mapping comp.lang.ruby postings to the mailing list ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org. (2) I received a followup to this posting which you can see at http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/6132dc5ece61114f?dmode=source&hl=de My posting was obviously read by someone subscribed to Ruby-Talk, and his reply was obviously sent to the mailing list, not to the comp.lang.ruby gateway. Since I am not subscribed to Ruby-Talk - actually, I wasn't even aware of the existence of this mailing list -, I would not have even noticed that I got a followup to my posting. I found out by accident, when I did a search with Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/) and, since GoogleGroups is subscribed to Ruby-Talk and also recognized that there was a message to my original post, I found that reply. (3) I posted a followup to that message using GoogleGroups. That message was of course directed to the ruby-talk mailing list directly, not to comp.lang.ruby, since the message I was replying to, (2), was also to the Mailing List, and Googlegroups can't know from this context that it should post the reply to comp.lang.ruby. (4) Then I received a message from the ruby-talk mailing list that I am not a member of the Ruby-Talk list and hence are not allowed to send postings there. The problem seems that though everyone can post to the ruby-talk mailing list via comp.lang.ruby gateway, only members can post to the mailing list directly. This has the consequence that a message posted to comp.lang.ruby can be read by subscribers to ruby-talk AND comp.lang.ruby, but followups to such a posting don't necessarily show up in the comp.lang.ruby usegroup. In other words: The gateway between comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk is one way only. Maybe there is an error how that gateway between comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk is configured? How can one find out who is responsible for operating this gateway? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <ronaldf / eml.cc> Posted via http://www.newsoffice.de/