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Re: Debian vs. other distros



On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:20:37 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:

> Do you not have to subscribe in order to post to the list?

No.

> I use the newsgroup version of the list and it bounced my posts until I
> subscribed.

Gmane requires authentication of the email address in the "From:" or
"Reply-to:" header for write access through their NNTP server to the
mailing list.

> I thought this was an anti-spam measure.

It is but it's Gmane's anti-spam (and anti-kook measure), not
debian-user's.



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