On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:01:35 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
If the list requires subscription, then gmane in turn requires you subscribe with nomail. Either you do it, or they do it in your stead.
I'm not sure about that. I sent my post via Gmane, replied to its auth message and got message that my post is denied and I should subscribe to the list. With some other mailing lists software like Mailman, my post would probably go to /dev/null.
If the list does not require subscription, then gmane doesn't require you, either, to subscribe.
But one still has to reply to their auth message which, iirc, uses TMDA mechanism.
In both cases, gmane sends mails to the list with your own mail address, not one of them. You post an nntp post to gmane, and they in turn generate a normal email that is sent to the mail list, with your mail address (in your stead). Thus you can receive direct email posts from people here, off-list, copies of the same post that you see on nntp, and of course, spam. Basically the same as in an nntp group that forces you to subscribe with real mail addresses.
Yes, and that's convenient since if the mailing list allows posting via gmane, one does not need to do anything else besides one-time reply to their message and it's the reason why it's cumbersome to require people using Gmane to subsctibe to nomail list. Sincerely, Gour -- When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.