Re: Connectons to gmane suddenly are non-usable

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

[ Adding gmane.discuss ]

On Thu, Feb 16 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc> writes: 
>
>> > Forward of help request from gmane.discuss 
>> > 
>> >   From: Harry Putnam <reader <at> jtan.com> 
>> >   Subject: Connection to gmane suddenly no work 
>> >   Newsgroups: gmane.discuss 
>> >   Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:42:12 -0500 
>> >   Message-ID: <7koe182i6j.fsf <at> callisto.jtan.com> 
>>  
>> (I didn't see this in gmane.discuss yet.) 
>
> Not for lack of trying... I tried at the remote machine mentioned in from 
> address above.  I tried by telnet and by web interface. 

I didn't see your posts because I filter on gmane.spam.detected: :-/

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| From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
| Subject: Lost ability to get usefull connection to gmane with gnus
| Newsgroups: gmane.discuss, gmane.spam.detected
| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:37:32 +0000 (UTC)
| Message-ID: <loom.20060216T032957-561@post.gmane.org>
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| From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
| Subject: Yikes I've been blackballed
| Newsgroups: gmane.discuss, gmane.spam.detected
| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:58:56 +0000 (UTC)
| Message-ID: <loom.20060216T154739-818@post.gmane.org>
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>  Is your IP (or IP range) listed 
>> in <URL:http://gmane.org/denied.php>?   
>
> Yikes ... yes it is `.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net' 
>
> Why would that be?  Egad it might be due to a change I made in which servers 
> were under the agent.  At about the time frame as this problem I put gmane 
> under agent (it is a foreign group on my setup)  I did notice some hefty 
> downloads happening after that and just assumed my 10-12 gmane groups were 
> downloading old messges. 
> Do you suppose that could get me blackballed at gmane? 

,----[ http://gmane.org/denied.php ]
| Actions that may lead to denial include:
| 
|     * Really excessive downloading of articles. I mean, really.
|     * Address-harvesting-like behavior. (Selecting many, many
|       groups, reading few articles.)
|     * Feeding articles onto Usenet. 
| 
| It takes a lot to trigger a denial. Nobody who uses Gmane with a
| normal news reader can cause a denial.
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"1+ gb to 3.6" as described in
<news:loom.20060216T154739-818@post.gmane.org> is a lot, but I don't
know if it is "Really excessive downloading" for Lars.

> If you can't post to
>> gmane.discuss via NNTP, you might want to use the web interface
>> <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.discuss>.
>
> Thats how I sent these messages. 
>
> But how do I get undenied... is it appropriate to write to
> gmane.discuss for stuff like that?

Yes.  See e.g. the recent thread "news.gmane.org blocking german
users?".

Bye, Reiner.
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