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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