Off Topic: Anybody reading this via news.gmane.org?

Just wondering if anyone else reads this list via gmane and also is
having problems?

I follow several lists via gmane and a few days ago all my posts started
being rejected - no authorization email, just an immediate "you are not
allowed to post" error. Then 2 days ago, I also lost read access to
all the lists - attempts get "480 Read access denied". I can ping the
NNTP server but I can't connect to it.

I have sent a couple of emails to gmane's adminstrator but so far I
haven't gotten any response. Gmane is an open service that doesn't
require accounts, so I am uncertain how I suddenly could be denied
reading privilege ... even to post it only requires that you be
subscribed to the particular list. I can't think of any reason my
address would be black-listed ... unless, of course, all of comcast.net
has been black-listed.

Thanks,
George