[Wikipedia-l] [INFO] management of the many Wikipedia/Media-lists - gmane update

Wed Oct 22 23:08:03 UTC 2003

There are two different manners to read the Wikimedia list;
- As an ordinary e-mail discussion list
- As a newsgroup

To read the lists like a usenet newsgroup...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup

...you need a "newsreader".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader

You /can/ use Outlook Express for this.

All posting are also send to gmane.org, a mail-to-usenet gateway.

To use it;

You must specify the NNTP-server news.gmane.org at your newsreader.
Sarch for the "wikipedia" and "wikimedia" groups.

See;
http://news.gmane.org/?match=wikipedia
http://news.gmane.org/?match=wikimedia

All Wikipedia/Media lists are listed (so far I know)

New lists!
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.legal
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.bugs

For posting to a newsgroup you must be a list member of that list. The 
first time you post to the newsgroup you will receive an email for 
verification of your email address, which is normal.

If you work by means of the newsgroup you probably no longer wants to 
receive the messages by email. To disable email delivery go to "Edit 
Options" of the mailing list.
htt://mail.wikipedia.org

Now whit the new Mailman version you can disabel delivery for all 
subribed Wikimedia lists.

Gmane options;
- A email address that is posted on gmane will be "encrypted".
It looks like this
wikipedia-l=T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA @ public.gmane.org

This is a anti-spam function. When you send a email to a encrypted email 
address you will recieve a auto request for confirmation the first time 
you use that address befor delivery of the email.

- Gmane respects the X-No-Archive, Archive and X-Archive headers. These 
headers allow users to say how long Gmane should store messages. A 
expired message will still exist in the normal list archive. This works 
only when you include those headers in the posting.

- cancel; if you post a message to a list by use of gmane you can 
"cancel" it like on usenet. This is not a good idea to do this. When 
canceled it is gone from the gmane newsserver and archive but you *can 
not* un-send a email. All normal list users will have recieved you posting.

Please do not email gmane to ask to remove your posting from there 
archive, the do not like it (i noticed, Ed, it is removed)

Notice to the list admins; please put a notice about gmane on your list 
infopage and/or the "welcome email"

Walter