News/mail gateway problem? (was Re: UnicodeDecodeError )

[Michael Spencer]

John Machin wrote:
> On Thu, 5 May 2005 13:00:32 +1200, Thomas Thomas <thomas at eforms.co.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Forgot to mention I am using python 2.3 on windows.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> This message (sent to python_list) would seem to be referencing a
> previous posting/message -- but it's not showing up in the newsgroup.
> I've noticed a few cases in the last day or so where the first item in
> a thread on the newsgroup was a reply to a message/posting that was
> not in the thread. 
> 
> Is there blockage/leakage in the pipe somewhere?
> 
> 
> 
I received the previous posting via the gmane news server.  But it is dated 
5/5/2005 5.15a PDT (i.e., tomorrow).  Perhaps this has something to do with the 
'blockage/leakage'

Michael