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Gmane is in danger of disappearing. It's an important gateway between mailing lists and usenet. The Gmane sysadmin is apparently getting too many threats, and it has made him ill. Here's his announcement and ensuing discussion.
Is there anyone that could help gmane stay alive?
-- hendrik
Wikipedia summarizes Gmane as follows:
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. 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.
Alexa reports Gmane has a global rank of 12,037 (up 280).
[At the time of accepting this story, I am getting a 523 error when attempting to reach http://gmane.org/ --Ed.]
(Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Friday July 29 2016, @07:10PM
There is a certain symmetry here. The Gnu people insist on pronouncing the 'G' (whereas it is silent in the word gnu), and Gmain claims their 'G' is silent, although by a normal reading in English it should be voiced.
(Score: 2) by gidds on Tuesday August 02 2016, @05:19PM
Although the English word 'gnu' was originally pronounced with a silent 'g', I believe that's been changing over the last 60 years — initially under influence from Flanders & Swann's eponymous song [wikipedia.org], and later from the GNU Project.
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