[Python-Dev] (214) (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@beopen.com
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:20:59 -0400 (EDT)

"TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

>> Can other people confirm that list->news is broken?

TW> No, not really. I can confirm that not all messages make it to
TW> the newsgroup: I can't find Tim's posting on PEP 214 anywhere
TW> on comp.lang.py.  (and our new super-newsserver definately
TW> keeps the postings around long enough, so I should be able to
TW> see it, and I did get it through python-list!)

TW> However, I *can* find some of my python-list submissions from
TW> earlier today, so it hasn't completely gone to meet its maker,
TW> either.

TW> I can also confirm that python-dev itself seems to be missing
TW> some messages.  I occasionally see messages quoted which I
TW> haven't seen myself, and I've seen others complain that they
TW> haven't seen my messages, as quoted in other mailings. Not
TW> more than a handful in the last week or two, though, and they
TW> *could* be attributed to dementia.

I found Tim's message in the archives, so I'm curious whether those missing python-dev messages are also in the archives? If so, that's a good indication that Mailman is working, so the problem is upstream from there. I'm also not seeing any errors in the log files that would indicate a Mailman problem.

I have seen some weird behavior from Postfix on that machine: occasionally messages to my python.org addr, which should be forwarded to my beopen.com addr just don't get forwarded. They get dropped in my spool file. I have no idea why, and the mail logs don't give a clue. I don't know if any of that is related, although I did just upgrade Postfix to the latest revision. And there are about 3k messages sitting in Postfix's queue waiting to go out though.

Sigh. I really don't want to spend the next week debugging this stuff. ;/

-Barry