CPHennessy wrote: > Hi Sunnies! > You should know that (at least for me) almost every Sun employees replies > coming thru your newsgroup gateway breaks email threading. Only those of you > who are directly subscribed to the mailing lists have correct threading. > This makes following topics quite difficult. > > Another issue frequently seen with Sun replies is that there can frequently > be > 2 or 3 copies of exactly the same message.
This is not a technical problem but PEBCAK (don't use reply all in newsgroups). > Please can someone in Sun fix these problems, or can Sun people be encouraged > to subscribe directly to the mailing lists ? The technical problem is not a Sun but a Collab problem (and IIRC the gateway used by Gmane has it also). I asked for a fix 2 years ago to no avail. So what makes this a Sun problem is that people @Sun still use this broken gateway for posting. For those who want to know what the problem is: if a crosspost goes to more than one OOo ML the gateway receives a mail for each list and creates news posting from them. Unfortunately this would mean that there would be more than one postings with the same Message ID on the news server. This is forbidden and unfortunately the gateway does not have the necessary intelligence to convert the crossposted mails to a news crosspost but workarounds the problem by prefixing *every* MID with the newsgroup name. To my knowledge there are other gateways that can handle this smarter. Ciao, Mathias-- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
