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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 1 Oct 2002 08:26
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New gmane.conf directive

You can now set:

  x-no-archive=ignore

to have the mail-to-news script ignore the X-No-Archive header.
(I.e., don't expire the message after 14 days, anyway.)  This is for
mailing lists that have X-No-Archive set on all messages, but where
the list admin wants Gmane to store the messages forever, anyway.

(I just had such a request.)

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 1 Oct 2002 09:07
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Re: notifications to mailing lists of gmane ?

Per Abrahamsen <abraham <at> dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> I'd suggest new lists only.  Sending 2000 identical unrequested emails
> may be seen as spam by some, especially those who manage multiple
> lists.

Yeah, I agree.

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 1 Oct 2002 09:13
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Re: notifications to mailing lists of gmane ?

Jon Ericson <Jon.Ericson <at> jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> I suspect that the phrase about authorizing messages would be
> confusing to list admins who haven't used Gmane before.  It might be
> more understandable to say that Gmane verifies that its users email
> addresses are valid before allowing them to post to the list.  

I've now made this change, and I've also mentioned that groups can be
made read-only.

> You might also mention that this is a no-strings-attached service and
> that there is no action required on their part.

That sounds like a phrase SpamAssassin would use to mark the message
as "spam".  :-)

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 1 Oct 2002 09:14
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Re: No spam reporting on gmane.discuss.subscribe

Steinar Bang <sb <at> dod.no> writes:

> http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.discuss.subscribe:974 results in the
> message:
>  gmane.discuss.subscribe does not exist.

Yeah; it only works for the groups that are backed by mailing lists.
gmane.discuss.subscribe is just a newsgroup...

I'll see what I can do.

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Tom Koelman | 1 Oct 2002 15:09
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Removing mailinglist reminders from gmane.config?

It's that time of month again, the mailing list reminders. I believe
gmane.config has had several hundreds of them already today. It would
be nice if these were moved to, say, gmane.config.reminders.

Tom
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 1 Oct 2002 15:27
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Re: Removing mailinglist reminders from gmane.config?

Tom Koelman <tkoelman <at> xs4all.nl> writes:

> It's that time of month again, the mailing list reminders. I believe
> gmane.config has had several hundreds of them already today. It would
> be nice if these were moved to, say, gmane.config.reminders.

I've now changed the script to post them to gmane.config.discarded. 

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Dan Jacobson | 1 Oct 2002 02:13

http://gmane.org/find.php needs exact name

>>>>> "J" == Jason R Mastaler <jason <at> mastaler.com> writes:

J> Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> dman.ddts.net> writes:
>> http://gmane.org/find.php sucks in that one must know the exact name
>> of a list to search for it.

J> Use http://news.gmane.org/ instead.  You can use inexact keywords like
J> `python'.

OK, that should mentioned on http://gmane.org/find.php .
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Dan Jacobson | 1 Oct 2002 02:17

Re: gmane-press-spam-button marked wrong article

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

Lars> Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> dman.ddts.net> writes:
>> Well, I used the gmane-press-spam-button

Lars> Was this the original version or the "efficient" version?  If you're
Lars> using a caching offline news server between Gnus and Gmane, you
Lars> should probably not use the latter version.

I was just using some hacked copy I saw posted here recently.  Where
can I download the official version?  I suppose using that program is
mainly to help the next guy not run into spam, whereas it is too late
to help me as I already downloaded that spam.
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Steinar Bang | 1 Oct 2002 18:22
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Re: No spam reporting on gmane.discuss.subscribe

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb <at> dod.no> writes:
>> http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.discuss.subscribe:974 results in the
>> message:
>>  gmane.discuss.subscribe does not exist.

> Yeah; it only works for the groups that are backed by mailing lists.
> gmane.discuss.subscribe is just a newsgroup...

Does that mean that the spammer must have posted the message by using
NNTP?  Does that mean that some spammers are trying to get spam posted
that way?  I wonder how they found gmane?  Do they have some tool that
probes port 119 on random IP numbers to see if reachable machines have
an NNTP server running?
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Jason R. Mastaler | 1 Oct 2002 18:26
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Re: Importing archives

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> I don't notice any change to the group.  Did it not work?
>
> There seems like there are some problems with the method I thought I
> was going to use, so I'm probably going to have to use a different
> method which is a bit more invasive.

When/if you are ready to try again, ping me for a new all.bz2 file,
since new messages have arrived since I generated the last one.

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