On Monday 01 December 2014 16:00:44 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> I've been collecting redhat.fedora from gmane for several years, > >> but about a week ago I found that while I could read gmane newsgroups > >> I was unable to post to them - that is, my posts did not appear. > > > > To be honest, this was a test post, > > to see if I could post directly to this newsgroup > > (rather than sending email to the mailing list). > > > > I found that I can indeed post to the centos newsgroup. > > But for some reason I cannot post directly > > to the corresponding Fedora newsgroup, > > gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general, > > though I can send email the corresponding mailing list, > > users at lists.fedoraproject.org . > > > > Why can I post to one gmane newsgroup, and not to the other? > > I am subscribed to both mailing lists, > > and everything is exactly the same in the two cases. > > > > If anyone can cast light on this phenomenon, I should be very grateful. > > This is the CentOS mailing list. You have to subscribe to it, and it's > moderated (by someone who currently seems to have a personal issue with > me, so I can't post to it). It's not a newsgroup. Evidently you are not familiar with gmane. This is a newsgroup server that mirrors various mailing lists <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane> including this mailing list, to which I am subscribed, and which is mirrored in the newsgroup <gmane.linux.centos.general>. > Is the CentOS newsgroup you're talking about a real usenet newsgroup? If > so, what's the name, comp.os.centos, or some such? I posted my query to the gmane newsgroup described above, and it thereupon found its way to the CentOS mailing list, where you presumably read it. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin