Platonides (and others) don't post through Gmane! Just mail directly to the WMF lists, please. Of the $ w3m -dump -cols 222 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2009-April/author.html |grep -c Platonides$ 17 articles you posted, only $ w3m -dump -cols 222 'http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Platonides%40gmail.com&group=gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and&xFILTERS=Gorg.wikimedia.mediawiki-Aplatonides---A'|grep -c Platonides.*2009-04 5 are visible on Gmane, the remaining 12 met the fate of http://gmane.org/spam-control.php , meaning they are invisible to normal Gmane users, unless you know their secret URLs, like $ lynx -dump -width=222 -nolist http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/30592/raw |grep -A 5 X-Spam-Report X-Spam-Report: 5.9 points; * 0.9 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (Split IP) * 4.5 SPF_HELO_FAIL SPF: HELO does not match SPF record (fail) * [SPF failed: Please see http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=rima-tde.net&ip=88.4.227.135&r…] * 0.5 DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS RBL: Envelope sender in whois.rfc-ignorant.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:30592 gmane.spam.detected:4359838 But from a non-marked-as-spam article of yours: $ lynx -dump -width=222 -nolist http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/30712/raw |grep X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 22.red-83-51-57.dynamicip.rima-tde.net $ host -t txt rima-tde.net rima-tde.net TXT "v=spf1 mx:rima-tde.net -all" Hmmm... http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework#SPF_FAIL_rejection http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39228023-39001093c-20049704o,0… http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html Etc. I give up. Anyway, let this be a warning for others who don't post directly. Now let's turn to people reading lists via Gmane's NNTP interface. To be able to see Platonides's messages, one needs to not have any filter group=gmane.spam.detected action=discard etc. in their readers.