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 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 mailin

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 yo

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 nu

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 postin

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 o

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