Non-public flag on Gmane TLUG newsgroup

[Andrew Malcolmson]

Sorry - I cc'ed this message to the group forgetting that no one will have
any idea what it is about.  I originally sent this to the Gmane
administrators asking them to add a warning/bounce message to
non-list-subscribers trying to post to the group through Gmane.

Gmane is supposed to warn non-subscribers that this won't work - instead,
 it now just accepts the message which silently disappears into the
void.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:30:24 -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:

> I'm the person who subscribed the TLUG list (Toronto Linux Users Group -
> gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug ) to Gmane back in August and I have a
> couple of questions for you:
> 
> 1. This group is non-public (you need to subscribe to post), however
> Gmane doesn't bounce the message if non-subscribers try to post.  I
> gather from the third paragraph of the 'Read-only groups' section of
> your 'Posting' page that Gmane should be doing this, so please make this
> happen.
> 
> I think it would be helpful if there was a field on your list
> subscription form where public/non-public/read-only could be indicated.
> 
> 2. The group list page has the description 'no articles; group not
> created yet'.  This isn't correct - the list is active and the posts are
> showing up in Gmane.
> 
> Thanks for your great service.

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