The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen at the end of July posted:
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.
The past few weeks, the Gmane machines (and more importantly, the company I work for, who are graciously hosting the servers) have been the target of a number of distributed denial of service attacks.
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But I ask myself: Is this fun any more?
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And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something.
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I’m thinking about ending Gmane, at least as a web site. Perhaps continue running the SMTP-to-NNTP bridge? Perhaps not? I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses, but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…
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I feel like I’m letting down a generation here. And despite what I rambled about in that paragraph up there, I’ve had many fun interactions with people because of Gmane. And lots and lots and lots of appreciative feedback over the years.
Later that day he posted a comment explaining a few more details.
Cutting things short: NNTP and MX work (for now), he is talking with parties for them to continue gmane, but for now the web-site is offline.
So I looked at which posts I had been using gmane links to correct them into linking to the Web Archive (a.k.a. WayBack machine) as much as possible. There were quite a few (even more than a simple Google search revealed) as shown in the list below.
Lesson learned
Counting how many of the gmane links were not at the WayBack machine I learned that for every blog post, I should links before posting them. Problem: I’ve scheduled about 400 posts and published some 3200, so that’s going to be a lot of edits.
- Hosting Grumpydev Imageflair locally – part 2 – trying to get the text and images to display (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- how to resize (grow) device partition of a multi-device BTRFS filesystem? (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- TUMBLEWEED: local console yast linedrawing characters garbage after first reboot (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- Nice #geekporn history lesson. With Linus, SUN, kissing a girl (or not), the overpriced POSIX manual… by @landley (already archived at the WayBack machine)
- In remembrance of Felipe Rodriquez (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- Some notes on OpenSSL, S/MIME, email, various RFC standards and their relations. (already archived at the WayBack machine)
- Some command-line tips for OpenSSL and file format (pfx, p12, cer, crt, key, etc.) conversion of certificates, keys (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- CommonMark Markdown spec.txt in WordPress: rendering is not good. (not yet archived at the WayBack machine) (not yet archived at the WayBack machine) (not yet archived at the WayBack machine) (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- mutt notes (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- Some links on the Delphi compiler and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project (not yet archived at the WayBack machine)
- Many more web platforms vulnerable to the hash collision attack (not only ASP.NET) #28C3 @hashDoS #hashDoS @ccc (already archived at the WayBack machine)
- #tzdb Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database: Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert need help (via Slashdot) (already archived at the WayBack machine)
- Importing Facebook friends in … (not gmane, but gmanews and already archived at the WayBack machine)
–jeroen
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