A Gmane Mystery

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I’ve been collecting redhat.fedora from gmane for several years, but about a week ago I found that while I could read gmane newsgroups I was unable to post to them – that is, my posts did not appear.

I was able to post to gmane.test, and could read these posts. So I assume there is no problem with my From: or other headers.

I take it that the gmane.linux.CentOS.general is in fact
“mirroring” the mailman mailing list

Assuming this is so, I don’t know whether the problem lies with the list or with the newsgroup?
I seem to be properly subscribed to the mailing list, with my current email address.

Any enlightenment or advice gratefully received.

3 thoughts on - A Gmane Mystery

  • Timothy Murphy wrote:

    To be honest, this was a test post, to see if I could post directly to this newsgroup
    (rather than sending email to the mailing list).

    I found that I can indeed post to the CentOS newsgroup. But for some reason I cannot post directly to the corresponding Fedora newsgroup, gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general, though I can send email the corresponding mailing list, users@lists.fedoraproject.org .

    Why can I post to one gmane newsgroup, and not to the other?
    I am subscribed to both mailing lists, and everything is exactly the same in the two cases.

    If anyone can cast light on this phenomenon, I should be very grateful.

  • Evidently you are not familiar with gmane. This is a newsgroup server that mirrors various mailing lists
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane>
    including this mailing list, to which I am subscribed, and which is mirrored in the newsgroup .

    I posted my query to the gmane newsgroup described above, and it thereupon found its way to the CentOS mailing list, where you presumably read it.