Re: Adding new lists

Sebastian Christ posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:31:54 +0200 as excerpted:

> I apologize if this is painfully obvious, but it is not obvious to me.
> How are new mailing lists added currently? Am I supposed to post them
> here?

Good question.  Unfortunately the best available public information about 
gmane rebuild status is now over a year old, from Sept. 2016.  Tho Lars 
(from the original gmane) replied to some posts back a month ago (Sept of 
this year, 2017).

The web stuff seems to be entirely broken now but for the landing page 
and the 2016 status blog links I already mentioned.  Based on the 
comments there, some stuff was apparently up for a short time, but it's 
now down again as article.gmane.org, etc, links that comments mention as 
working are now broken.

So the only, for now, dependable interface, seems to be the list2news 
bridge and nntp stuff.

Which means posting your requests here is pretty much your only choice.  
But whether you'll get any action on them, or how long that might take 
(even when gmane was up and running sometimes messages didn't get 
authoritative replies for months, tho replies did eventually come), is 
anyone's guess.

Unfortunately, gmane seems to be on the death track.  Without any 
reliable way to add new lists/groups or modify address information for 
lists that move, even if the list2news and nntp service remains up, it'll 
obviously be less and less useful over time. =:^(

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