I had subscribed to the nntp server of my isp (pipex uk) and searched for "samba" it showed a few hits but "gmane.network.samba.general" showed as containing no posts but "mailing.unix.samba" showed a bit more than 20'000 so I subscribed to that and sent a slurr of messages with questions and followups to that newslist over the weekend, and my questions did show up in "mailing.unix.samba". But not having received a single answer by the end of the weekend I thought something was a little strange.
So I went to check the samba.org archives and found that my messages had not made it to the official mailing list nor to the email archives. That's when I started resending the relevant messages from the past few days but this time to "gmane.network.samba.general". So if some have seen my posts more than once, I am sorry, but at least I corrected my spelling in the second postings and did not resend the level 10 log of 2.4MB. ;-)
What is the purpose or function of newsgroup "mailing.unix.samba"? And is it my ISPs fault that they only offer "mailing.unix.samba" for subscription and not "gmane.network.samba.general" and how do the two lists relate to each other? It would appear that at least some of the posts to "gmane.network.samba.general" do make it to "mailing.unix.samba" but no messages appear to travel the "other way".
-- Urs Rau
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