Re: Posting to gmane.mail.getmail.user

On 2024-04-27, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 25.04.24 um 10:34 schrieb Nuno Silva:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When posting to gmane.mail.getmail.user, postings are rejected and the
>> client shows me the following message:
>>
>>      Couldn't send message via news: 441 gmane.mail.getmail.user is unidirectional
>>
>> What can/should be done about this? Is this something that can be
>> changed in Gmane, or, for this group, posters have to post directly via
>> e-mail?
>
> As it says - instead, you need to subscribe to that list (by its own
> policy) and then mail to it. See
> https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#mailing-list-users

At first sight, that, by itself, doesn't explain it - lists that require
subscription in order to post were already a thing, and all that
required was subscribing (often with a "nomail" option for convenience)
so that one could read and post via Gmane. What is different in this
case?

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Nuno Silva