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Hi!
As requested in http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/devs.html, I would
like to note that I noticed a bug in gate_news (mailman-2.1.11), for which a fix has been proposed a couple of years ago. I applied this fix, and it solved the problem for me, so I suggest that this fix goes into the next mailman release if the developers don't see potential problems with it.
More details are here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265941
Kind regards,
Markus
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Markus Grabner wrote:
As requested in http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/devs.html, I would like to note that I noticed a bug in gate_news (mailman-2.1.11), for which a fix has been proposed a couple of years ago. I applied this fix, and it solved the problem for me, so I suggest that this fix goes into the next mailman release if the developers don't see potential problems with it.
More details are here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265941
I suggest the attached patch (gate_news.patch.txt) rather than the one in the bug report. There could be errors such as a bad nntp_host for a particular list that will throw socket.error. If we're going to not allow one list's configuration to abort processing (a good thing I think), we need to continue on socket.error too.
Thoughts?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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On Sep 18, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Markus Grabner wrote:
As requested in http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/devs.html, I
would like to note that I noticed a bug in gate_news (mailman-2.1.11), for
which a fix has been proposed a couple of years ago. I applied this fix, and
it solved the problem for me, so I suggest that this fix goes into the
next mailman release if the developers don't see potential problems with
it.More details are here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265941
BTW, I've updated the devs.html page so that it contains the up-to- date information on the move to Launchpad.
- -Barry
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Barry Warsaw
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Mark Sapiro
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Markus Grabner