On 06-Dec-2005 Andy Hassall wrote: >> I cannot find these postings on the mail-archive.com or >> nntp.perl.org archives >> so where did they come from? Is this some sort of mailing >> list to news gateway >> issue I've missed? > > It looks like the common factor in both cases is that the postings were > posted through Google Groups itself onto their view of the perl.dbi.users > newsgroup.
Yes, thats how I saw it. > It seems that postings made in this way don't get back to nntp.perl.org > (where they exist as newsgroups - they're not part of the Usenet hierarchy > proper), and so also don't make it to the corresponding mailing lists. > > If this is the case, then it seems that Google Groups should either make > their version of the group read-only (this would seem to be the most > sensible option since it's really a mailing list you should subscribe to), > or fix the apparent propagation problem from postings made on their > interface back to the source (nntp.perl.org). I find it rather disturbing I can be posting to the dbi-user list and someone can answer on google groups and I don't see it. If google intend it to work this way I'm amazed and rather worried as I didn't see anything on google groups that made this clear. Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Ltd, UK Development
