posting on the newsgroups for pear

[yawnmoth]

I'd like to post some questions on php.pear.general and am having some
difficulty. Unfortunately, I can't even connect to news.php.net using
Outlook Express. Using Thunderbird I can connect, but I can't post.
I've submitted three posts to no avail. Thinking that maybe the SMTP I
was using just didn't support NTTP stuff, I tried using another, to no
avail.

This makes me wonder - is php.pear.general supposed to be read-only?
Is the only way to post messages to it to subscribe to the emailing
list and post?

Here's the link discussing the newsgroups:

http://pear.php.net/support/lists.php

Any insights would be appreciated - thanks!