Re: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-07 Thread Andy Hassall
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:56:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Leffler) wrote: The mailing list is closed - only signed up members can post. There's no way for groups.google.com to enforce that restriction, so 'phantom' postings can appear at Google. I was under the impression it was possible

Re: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread Jonathan Leffler
On 12/6/05, Martin J. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I needed to find a thread I remembered from this mailing list and thought of the list of mailing list archives on the dbi.perl.org web page. I found what I was after in the groups.google.com archive but was surprised to see a number of

RE: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread Andy Hassall
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

RE: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread Martin J. Evans
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

Re: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:46:06PM -, Martin J. Evans wrote: I needed to find a thread I remembered from this mailing list and thought of the list of mailing list archives on the dbi.perl.org web page. I found what I was after in the groups.google.com archive but was surprised to see a

Re: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread David Nicol
On 12/6/05, Martin J. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06-Dec-2005 Andy Hassall wrote: 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

Re: Why can I find postings on google groups that I never saw on this list

2005-12-06 Thread Martin J. Evans
David Nicol wrote: On 12/6/05, Martin J. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06-Dec-2005 Andy Hassall wrote: 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