Re: [Bitpim-devel] Re: Gmane newsgroup

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

> > 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?

Err, you subscribed this list to Gmane.  As I pointed out, the list
settings on SF require all posts to be from a subscribed member.

> > 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.

The spam has been trivial.  There is a flood of the "your message couldn't
be delivered due to a virus" stuff.  Although Gmane may do some verification,
that doesn't solve the problem on the SF end.

Quite frankly, I don't want to see all those idiotic virus things.
Unfortunately I still have to go into the mailing list admin
interface and remove them every few days (they are help up due
to not being from a subscribed member).

Roger