Re: [Bitpim-devel] Re: Gmane newsgroup

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

Alex Zeiger wrote:
> Yeah, I'm the one who registered devel and users.

I had to approve you posting this message.  You will need to subscribe to
post any more messages.  I should also point out that it was fairly rude 
not actually asking permission or saying you were going to do that.

There is currently one problem which the Gmane folks are looking into.
I have the lists at SourceForge set so that only subscribers can
post.  That stops the zillions of annoying messages from mail
systems responding to forged email from viruses.  (There are between
3 and 10 a day on each list).

The messages relayed from Gmane are supposed to have the SMTP From
field being who they subscribed as with the Envelope From field
being who posted, and Mailman is supposed to OK that.  We will
see what the results of Gmane's investigation is.

Assuming that doesn't work, there are three resolutions:

 - Turn off the requirements for subscription, which will result in
   the lists being filled with virus and auto-responder crap, but
   Gmane will work.

 - Make the lists at Gmane read-only (ie anyone can read, but you
   still have to subscribe to post)

 - Take the lists off Gmane

I am unlikely to do the first.  We will probably have to do the
middle one.

Roger