[CentOS] This isn't supposed to be difficult (how to nntp post to the Gmane Pan user group)

[Rock]

On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:50:33 +0200, Markus Falb wrote:

> if you post the first time to a mailing list per gmane 
> then gmane will send you a mail that you must answer.

UPDATE:

Ah. *That* was the problem!

Lars had written back, but his answer was unhelpful.
He had written, verbatim: 
 "If you can read via Gmane, you can post via Gmane."

This turns out to be false (since I could clearly read but not post
to the Gmane pan users group).

But, given your helpful suggestion above, I belatedly logged into my 
rarely-used throwaway email account, and, lo and behold, in that unused 
email account, were the missing (now expired) authorization requests 
from Gmane:

> Subject: gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user: Authorization required
> From: Gmane Autoauthorizer <auth-bignumber at auth.gmane.org>
> 	
> You have sent a message to be posted on the
> gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user newsgroup.
> 
> Before the message is posted on the newsgroup, you have
> to confirm that you exist.  Just reply to this message, and
> the message will be posted.
> 
> You have to respond within one week.

I'm surprised reading the FAQ didn't bring this up, but, 
Lars said it's not something they put in the FAQ because 
you're just supposed to know it.

I guess I did, at one time, but, I had forgotten the sequence
for posting (which requires the throwaway email be actually used
at least once per Gmane group).

Mea culpa.