Gmane

Gmane
Owner Yomura
Created by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Website gmane.org
Alexa rank 21,059 (September 2016)[1]
Launched 2002
Current status Online

Gmane (pronounced "mane") is an e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Gmane is an archive; 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 and anti-virus software so that spam and viruses are hidden or deleted. Since Gmane is a bidirectional gateway, you can also post on the mailing lists. Outgoing mail is checked by TMDA 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 of Gnus, a newsreader for Emacs. It began operating publicly on 11 February 2002 after a one-month test period.

As of 18 February 2012, Gmane's homepage boasts inclusion of 129,592,482 messages in its archives, from a total of 20,070 mailing lists.

On the 28 July 2016, Lars announced that he was considering shutting Gmane down. The Web interface was taken offline.[2][3]

On the 10 August 2016, Gmane was acquired by Yomura, only the message spool was transferred but the software behind the site had to be redeveloped.[4] The site was partially restored on 29 August 2016 and almost completely on 6 September 2016.

On the 6 September 2016, Lars announced that Gmane web interface comes online again. [5]

Example

wikien-l is an electronic mailing list for discussion concerning the 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.org and group name gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english. Messages posted to the list by email will appear in the Gmane newsgroup, and vice versa.

Other list-archiving services

Other services which can archive mailing lists include The Mail Archive, Nabble, MarkMail, MARC, MailBrowse, the "old" Google Groups user interface (the interface which was standard until 2012), Gossamer Threads, and OpenSubscriber.

References

  1. ↑ "Gmane.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "The End of Gmane? – Random Thoughts". lars.ingebrigtsen.no. 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  3. ↑ "Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?". Lwn.net. 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  4. ↑ "Next Steps for Gmane". home.gmane.org. 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  5. ↑ "Gmane Alive!". lars.ingebrigtsen.no. 2016-09-06. Retrieved 2016-09-12.

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