On 2010/10/19 2:33 PM Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2010-10-19 2:43 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
if even the GMANE admins cannot tell me exactly how to make it work that
their verified accounts can send to us without subscription, I honestly
don't care a lot.
I seem to recall once when I was experimenting with gmane a long time
ago that if I posted to a list that I wasn't subscribed to, I would get
an email 'confirmation' from gmane, and once I confirmed, my message to
the list was sent. I also seem to recall it wasn't a once-per-message
confirmation, but it wasn't a one-time either...
Does anyone who uses gmane know for certain how it works now?
The following is from http://gmane.org/post.php:
*Posting Messages*
Gmane works as a bi-directional gateway for many of the lists it carries. To
post to a
list, you can use the news interface or the web interface.
Since Gmane makes it easy to get in touch with a huge number of mailing
lists, it could
potentially become a spamming gateway. To inhibit that, Gmane requires that
users who post
through Gmane authorize themselves.
Here's how it works.
1. The first time you post something to a newsgroup, Gmane spools the
message and sends
you an email asking you to respond.
2. You press "reply" in your favorite mail reader, and Gmane registers
this authorization.
3. Every five minutes, a Gmane cron job goes through the spool of unsent
messages, and
sends all messages that has received authorization.
4. No more than one message is sent per user per five minutes. If you
post more than one
message per five minutes, the messages are spooled and sent out later.
No action is
required from you.
5. If you authorize more than one new group per hour, the authorizations
are spooled,
and handled one per hour. This is to discourage mass authorizations of
groups by
diligent spammers.
Persons who are found to spam, after getting through all these difficulties,
will be barred
from using the Gmane posting mechanism.
People who do not have valid email addresses in their From or Reply-To
headers can't use
Gmane to post to mailing lists.
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