Gmane
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| Owner | Yomura |
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| Created by | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
| Website | gmane.org |
| Alexa rank |
 21,059 (September 2016[update]) |
| 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. Since Gmane is a bidirectional gateway, you can also post on the mailing lists. 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.
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[update], Gmane's homepage boasts inclusion of 129,592,482 messages in its archives, from a total of 20,070 mailing lists.
In July of 2016, Lars announced that he was considering shutting Gmane down, and the web interface was taken offline, but in August of 2016 Gmane was acquired by Yomura Holdings. Only the message spool was transferred, with the software behind the site having to be redeveloped. On the 6 September 2016, the Gmane web interface came online again.
is an electronic mailing list for discussion concerning the . Via the standard email interface, users post messages by emailing them to , 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 . Messages posted to the list by email will appear in the Gmane newsgroup, and vice versa.
Incoming mail is checked by SpamAssassin and anti-virus software so that spam and viruses are hidden or deleted. Outgoing mail is checked by TMDA to make sure that no spam will be posted to the lists using Gmane.
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