On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:

> Do you have any stats for the percentage of mailing list posts that  
> don't make it to comp.lang.ruby?

I just did a simple grep of the logs for a period of a little over  
the last month.  It looks like we average about eight rejected  
messages a day (for an "HTML post" reason).

> If it's common knowledge that one needs to post in text only, then I
> don't mind letting the gateway act as a filter for those who can't
> configure their mail client, but if the requirement is not widely
> known, then I may be missing posts that I'd like to receive.

Well, I wrote a blog post about it and reference it whenever the  
discussion comes up.  ;)

> Also, do you have stats for the percent of messages originating from
> usenet vs. from the mailing list?

Over the same time period, the gateway saw 1,071 posts from Usenet  
and 5,126 from the mailing list.

James Edward Gray II