At 11:17 PM 21/12/2009, you wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
>> [mailto:Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Carlos H. Cantu
>> Sent: Lunes, 21 de Diciembre de 2009 8:35
>>
>> FYI, I tried to subscribe some of fb lists to Gmane.org (as atkins is
>> down), but got this in reply:
>>
>> > > This mailing list was subscribed, but has since been
>> removed by the
>> > > list administrators.
>
>The message is not clear to me. Did the gmane admins remove a fb-list or did
>the administrators from the FB side shut down the connection to gmane?

Dunno. But the firebird-net-provider list is on gmane and has been for some time (6 months? perhaps more.)

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.dotnetprovider

>Can it be a serious source of spam?

Yes, it is a *serious* source of spam. We don't get this on any other lists.

Helen