Is Gmane free software?
Yes, and you can download the software here, but mainly Gmane is a service, and as such isn’t very downloadable. The major pieces are we:search, The Weaver Daemon, weft, and Loom. • Can you import an old mailing list archive? Sure. It’s easy. Just follow the instructions here. • Can you export a list archive? Sure. It’s easy. Just follow the instructions here. • Why are all the articles out of order after doing an import? They aren’t on the news server. On the web server they’ll remain out of order until weaverd has rethreaded them, which’ll happen six months later. • Six months later? Are you kidding? Not really. That’s how often the messages are rethreaded in weaverd, just about. • Can I read news via secure NNTP (nntps)? Yes. Point your news reader towards nntps://snews.gmane.org/. • How do I link to a group on Gmane? There are two addresses you can give. • nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.group.name: This is the newsgroup. • http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.group.name: This is the web interfa
