Ingebrigtsen: Whatever Happened To news.gmane.org?

Lars Ingebrigtsen providesdetails on the current status of the Gmane archive server and asks forfeedback on whether it is still useful. "Over the past few years,people have asked me what happened to Gmane, and I've mostly clasped myhands over my ears and gone 'la la la can't hear you', because there'snothing about the story I'm now finally going to tell that I don't findhighly embarrassing. I had hoped I could just continue that way until Idie, but perhaps it would be more constructive to actually tell peoplewhat's going on instead of doing an ostrich impression." (Thanks toGiovanni Gherdovich).