Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something. Probably me being a wise ass. So… it’s been 14 years… I’m old now. I almost threw up earlier tonight because I’m so stressed about the situation. I should retire and read comic books and watch films. Oh, and the day job. Work, work, work. Oh, and Gnus. 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…

On his blog, Gmane creator and maintainer Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen warns that the email-to-news (and web) gateway may be disappearing soon. The site, which is hosted by his employer, has been under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for the last few weeks, but there are other problems as well. "" The site, which has been relied on by many (including LWN) since it started in 2002, is down now and it appears to be unclear when (or if) it will be back. Log in to post comments)