- Gmane
Gmane (pronounced "mane") is an
e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to accesselectronic mailing list s as if they wereUsenet newsgroup s, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Gmane is anarchive ; it never expires messages (unless explicitly requested by users). Gmane also supports importing list postings made prior to a list's inclusion on the service.Incoming mail is checked by
SpamAssassin andanti-virus software so that spam and viruses are hidden or deleted. Since Gmane is abidirectional gateway, you can also post on the mailing lists. Outgoing mail is checked byTMDA to make sure that no spam will be posted to the lists using Gmane.The project was initiated in
2001 by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, one of the authors ofGnus , a newsreader forEmacs . It began operating publicly on11 February 2002 after a one-month test period.as of|2008|9|17, Gmane's homepage boasts inclusion of 60,457,704 messages in its archives, from a total of 10,359 mailing lists.
Example
The [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l WikiEN-l mailing list] is an electronic mailing list for discussion concerning English-language Wikipedia. Via the standard email interface, users post messages by emailing them to
wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org, and these are forwarded by email to everyone who subscribes to the list.Gmane permits users to access this mailing list as if it were a Usenet newsgroup instead, by using the
news server news.gmane.organd group namegmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english. Messages posted to the list by email will appear in the Gmane newsgroup, and vice versa.* "If you have newsreader software configured, you can access the Gmane interface of the WikiEN-l list at: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english."
* "You can view the Gmane interface of the WikiEN-l list via the web at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english."External links
* [http://www.gmane.org/ Gmane homepage]
* [http://www.gmane.org/lists.php Gmane's complete list of hosted lists] (Note: may be slow to load)
* Gmane is built on free software, and you can download some of it here: http://gmane.org/dist.php
* [http://n2.nabble.com/ Nabble] - alternative web-interface for reading and posting to maillists
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