# Mailing List Test

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 28, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879 "2008-05-28T16:35:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/1 "2008-05-28T16:35:48Z")

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Hi,

is the list processor still alive?

robert

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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/2 "2008-05-28T17:08:16Z")

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On May 28, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Robert K. wrote:

> is the list processor still alive?

Seems to be. You sent this message to the mailing list, right? I see  
it there:

[http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/303192](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/303192)

It also seems to have made it to Usenet (and the headers show it was  
gated):

[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/00ca9f9a0998b008?dmode=source](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/00ca9f9a0998b008?dmode=source)

Am I missing something?

James Edward G. II

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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/3 "2008-05-28T18:46:12Z")

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On 00:03 Thu 29 May , James G. wrote:

> gated):
> 
> [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/00ca9f9a0998b008?dmode=source](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/00ca9f9a0998b008?dmode=source)
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> Am I missing something?
> 
> James Edward G. II

Looks like it works, since I received it here (via mailing list)

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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/4 "2008-05-28T20:53:43Z")

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Robert K. wrote:

> is the list processor still alive?

I haven’t received any messages to my email since May 26 2 PM PST. (48  
hours now).

– gw

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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/5 "2008-05-28T21:41:12Z")

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Greg W. wrote:

> Robert K. wrote:
> 
> > is the list processor still alive?
> 
> I haven’t received any messages to my email since May 26 2 PM PST. (48  
> hours now).

oops. n/m. problem at this end.

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**Author:** ![robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@robkuz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robkuz)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mailing-list-test/138879/6 "2008-05-29T12:18:53Z")

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM, James G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Am I missing something?

It has happened several times lately that I receive messages from  
comp.lang.ruby with a delay of several hours up to half a day. For  
instance, I received Dave’s mail regarding “[ADV] New Beta of  
PickAxe3” over 11 hours late, well after many of the replies to it.  
According to the headers, the mail got stuck at the transition from  
[carbon.ruby-lang.org](http://carbon.ruby-lang.org) to [mx.google.com](http://mx.google.com). So it looks like it may be a  
Google problem.

Peter
