Is the mailing list to usenet gateway borked?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:49:33 +0000, Peter Pearson wrote:

> On 20 Jun 2011 01:41:44 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The last couple of messages on this list <python-list at python.org> 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: python-list at python.org
>     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 <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>
Subject:   Re: What is this syntax ?
Newsgroups:   comp.lang.python
References:   <4dfdfc99$0$715$426a34cc at news.free.fr> <4dfe10d1$0$28053
$426a34cc at news.free.fr> <roy-2A6DC8.11394419062011 at news.panix.com> 
<e724fc3e-8198-4fb7-b1d3-96834f3fa6bb at 34g2000pru.googlegroups.com> <roy-
DD0C35.16204819062011 at news.panix.com> <mailman.164.1308517611.1164.python-
list at python.org>
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:   <4dfe841c$0$30002$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>


-- 
Steven