Re: Posting to gmane.mail.getmail.user

On 2024-04-27, Adam Sjøgren wrote:

> Nuno writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> That Gmane "knows" that being subscribed won't be enough to let
> postings via Gmane go through and tells you upfront.
>
> There are different possibilities in Gmane's configuration regarding
> what a mailing lists supports:
>
>   · "non-public" means only subscribers can post
>   · "unidirectional" mail-to-news, but not news-to-mail at all
>   · "read-only" (announce, scm groups etc.)
>   · default bi-directional
>
> The situation you describe in the quote above is the first, the
> situation you described originally is the second.
>
> Why some mailing lists choose to reject mail from Gmane only the
> mailing list administrator of each list knows.

Ah, thanks!

I'll probably contact the project maintainer to ask if this behaviour on
the list side is intended, if so I have to start testing whether my
setup is adequate to send replies by e-mail to that group. (It's Gnus,
so it certainly can do that, what I need to check is whether it is
configured to do so in an appropriate way.)


-- 
Best regards,
Nuno Silva