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 list you should subscribe to),
or fix the apparent propagation problem from postings made on their
interface back to the source (nntp.perl.org).
I find it rather disturbing I can be posting to the dbi-user list and someone
can answer on google groups and I don't see it. If google intend it to work
this way I'm amazed and rather worried as I didn't see anything on google
groups that made this clear.
As a former usenet admin I can attest that configuing the news server
to propoagate
the perl.* groups out through nntp.perl.org would be trival. If
nntp.perl.org wants to
allow unverified content arriving through that channel to get copied out to
subsciber-only mailing lists, that's another story, as usenet can be
awfully spammy.
Google has pretty good junk filters though, so maybe opening that channel would
be a good thing, if googlegroups doesn't send any junk through.
What particularly worried me (and why I included it) was the total
misinformation (and I'm seriously holding back here) in a posting which
went unanswered because we did not see it. Had that posting appeared in
dbi-users I am sure there would have been no shortage of responses.
It almost seems like the mailing list has been userped in some way.
All conversation in one room is overheard by all interested parties
and all conversation in another room is only available to those who
turn up there too. I don't want to (and probably won't) look in two
places for an reponse to a thread.
I can't pretend otherwise, I don't like what has happened here in google
groups and was so surprised when I discovered it I first started looking
into my spam filters assuming some postings had been filtered out.
Martin
