[Bitpim-devel] Re: Gmane newsgroup

[Alex Z. <ze...@no...>]

Roger Binns wrote:
> 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. 

Yes, I noticed. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Gmane?

> I should also point out that it was fairly rude
> not actually asking permission or saying you were going to do that.

Sorry. I've subscribed a lot of groups, and I usually do ask. Yet, no
one's ever refused registration so I began laxing the formalities.

> 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).

Wow, I had thought this list low-trafficked enough to be under the radar 
of most spammers and viruses. Gmane certainly won't add to that since it 
verifies all email addresses coming from the newsgroup end.