Posts from gmane no longer allowed?

[Ned Deily]

On 9/26/21 20:38, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-26, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> On 9/26/21 10:34 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2021-09-26, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>
>>>> I am unaware of a change in the newsgroup <--> mailing list policy,
>>>> and other newsgroup posts were coming through last week (it's been a
>>>> light weekend).
>>>
>>> We're not talking about the usenet<-->list gateway.
>>
>>> My first _guess_ would be that Mailman started refusing emailed posts
>>> from the gmane server to python-list, and that triggered the gmane server
>>> to stop accepting posts for python-list.
>>
>> I readily admit I may not understand, or know, all the usenet
>> jargon,
> 
> Once again, there is no Usenet involved. Gmane.io is an NNTP server,
> and NNTP is _also_ used by Usenet servers, but Gmane isn't part of
> Usenet and doesn't implement any of the Usenet peering "news"
> protocols.
> 
>> but looking at the Mailman server for Python list I see it is still
>> fully configured to talk with News.FU-Berlin.DE, newsgroup
>> comp.lang.python.
> 
> This has nothing to do with Usenet servers or their connections to
> python-list.
> 
>>From the list's POV, gmane.io is a "normal" email subscriber who just
> happens to archive all the articles it receives. I should never have
> mentioned that gmane.io does NNTP -- it just seems to have confused
> everybody.
> 
> When a gmane.io user submits a post, the post arrives at python-list
> by normal email channels having been sent via SMTP by the gmane.io
> server "From:" the user (who, IIRC, has to be subscribed to the list).

I have been in touch with the administrator of gmane. It appears that 
posting from python-list to gmane has been deliberately disabled, at 
least temporarily, with cause. I'll see if we can resolve the problem.