why can't I post to .applications?

[One Angry User]

On a windy Wednesday, the 9th day of November, 2005, Carl Karsten's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> when trying to reply to a post: "Re: [ITP] Installation Profiles
> packages", I get "News(NNTP)error occurred:gmane.os.cygwin.applications
> is unidirectional." and yet I have posted "Re: where is setup.exe
> source?" to gmane.os.cygwin, gotten the confirmation email, replied, and
> it got posted.

It's the hippos, I'm tellin' ya!

OAU