On 2008-03-31, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> On 2008-03-31, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Bill Unruh wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> You appear to be quoting an off list reply with no indication of >>> permission, although it is just possible that the email gateway >>> forwarded it to email subscribers without forwarding it to the >>> usenet group proper. >> >> What you are suggesting is not possible. >> >> The Usenet news-group is just another subscriber to the questions >> list. > > It's certainly very possible that the missing article was private > email only, although possibly by mistake.
Private e-mail can not be a "missing article". >The mailing list doesn't seem to be a simple subscriber, There is only _one_ type of list subscriber: those who receive mail from the list. >as an example quoted before showed no sign of attachments in the usenet >version, but the mail archive version that I was pointed to mentioned >that attachments (a PGP signature) had been suppressed. Our mailing lists strip out all manner of MIME cruft. The gateway is a bit more stringent to protect those of us who use real (i.e. console) news readers. > I assume you mean the usenet gateway is a subscriber, as usenet > groups can't subscribe to mailing lists on their own. In that case, > it is at least theoretically possible that the gateway suppresses the > message on the usenet side, but if it is an ordinary subscriber on the > mailing list side, the message will still go to other mailing list > subscribers. One obvious case in which this would happen is if there > was a duplicate message ID. Both the mailing-list and the gateway use the original message ID to prevent duplicate posts/articles. Every post/article is propagated exactly _once_. There is no supression. There is no Cabal. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
