Is the mailing list to usenet gateway borked?

[Steven D'Aprano]

The last couple of messages on this list <[email protected]> show up
fine on the mailman archives, but are empty posts on comp.lang.python. Is
there a problem with the mail -> usenet gateway?

Who controls that?

 

[Peter Pearson]

The last couple of messages on this list <[email protected]> show up
fine on the mailman archives, but are empty posts on comp.lang.python. Is
there a problem with the mail -> usenet gateway?

I don't see any empty posts on comp.lang.python. Can we talk
about a specific post? For example, this recent post is not
empty when retrieved from news.individual.net using slrn:

To: (e-mail address removed)
From: Terry Reedy
Subject: Re: threading : make stop the caller
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:58:56 -0400

 

[Tim Chase]

The last couple of messages on this list<[email protected]> show up
fine on the mailman archives, but are empty posts on comp.lang.python. Is
there a problem with the mail -> usenet gateway?

I haven't noticed any issues. I tend to send via email
([email protected]) and receive via gmane's news interface.
Occasionally Thunderbird will hiccup on a post, failing to
download the body (it has a feel like a race-condition in my
experience). Your post shows you're using Pan, so you might try
poking at your news-server through a different news-reader and
see if you experience the same issue(s).

-tkc

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

I don't see any empty posts on comp.lang.python. Can we talk about a
specific post? For example, this recent post is not empty when
retrieved from news.individual.net using slrn:

To: (e-mail address removed)
From: Terry Reedy
Subject: Re: threading : make stop the caller Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011
12:58:56 -0400

It seems to be a bug in my news client, Pan, because I've tried
downloading the posts in another client and they are not empty. However,
something has changed, because it only started recently -- I've never
seen such "empty" posts before, not in 5+ years of posting with Pan, and
within the last 24 hours or so, I am seeing dozens, in two different
versions.

I will treat this as a bug in Pan, and take it to the appropriate forums,
but for anyone who cares, here's one example:

From: Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What is this syntax ?
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
References: <[email protected]> <4dfe10d1$0$28053
[email protected]> <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> <roy-
(e-mail address removed)> <mailman.164.1308517611.1164.python-
(e-mail address removed)>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: 19 Jun 2011 23:19:56 GMT
Lines: 36
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

 

[Peter Pearson]

On 20 Jun 2011 23:49:11 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[snip]

I will treat this as a bug in Pan, and take it to the appropriate forums,
but for anyone who cares, here's one example:

From: Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What is this syntax ?
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
References: <[email protected]> <4dfe10d1$0$28053
[email protected]> <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> <roy-
(e-mail address removed)> <mailman.164.1308517611.1164.python-
(e-mail address removed)>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: 19 Jun 2011 23:19:56 GMT
Lines: 36
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

As you probably expected, that message is displayed normally
by slrn.