Re: gmane.os.freebsd.test and gmane.test sends: both fail from an independent context

Mark Millard:

> I've tried NewsTap on an iPad. It has no SMTP configuration
> ability but is supposed to allow posting. (My normal use is
> intended to be: reading.)

Yes, it is an NNTP client, meaning it uses NNTP both to read and
to post messages.

> I'm unable to post from it as well, appearing to send but the post
> message never showing up. (Message reading is operational.)
>
> NewsTap has a scroll-able log. After POST comes text like (hand typed here):
>
> 340 Ok, recommended message-ID <10k5ocq$3gh$1@ciao.gmane.io>
> 240 Article received (mailed to moderator)

Seems to work, I am reading it.  This behavior is a feature of
moderated newsgroups, which in the real Usenet are a minority,
and posts to unmoderated groups arrive immediately.  This
message has been posted via NNTP.  It contains:

   X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/

Congratulations!

For a quick test with real Usenet, you can try this anonymous
NNTP server:

   paganini.bofh.team

with the standard port 119.

> Maybe: Failure to pass the automatic moderation filtering that
> requires matching a subscription?

No, I have exactly the same log message for my successful posts
via Gmane.

> For the groups I've added into NewsTap, after the description
> text for a group in this UI there always seems to be the text:
>
> (Moderated) (read, moderated)

I think Gmane represent most if not all mailing lists as
moderated newsgroups.

> Some groups prefix that with:
>
> (non-public)

I don't know what that means.  Would need an example.

> others with:
>
> (read-only)

Lots of Gmane groups are feeds (RSS and others).  They are in
gwene.* .  And feeds are, of course, read-only.

> Some have neither prefix.

Again, I can't comment without an example.