Re: Boost mailing lists again

Edward writes:

> I really do not understand who the "owner" of the mailing list is or
> even what this means.

Basically whoever runs the mailinglist.

Usually there is an administrator or "owner" of a mailing list. Someone
who has access to the list of subscribers and has access to remove or
add subscribers.

> How does someone determine whether "GMane is a subscriber" for
> [email protected] ?

Only the people who run lists.boost.org can answer that question.

> On the https://admin.gmane.io/ web page, searching for
> gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel does show the mailing list with the correct
> information, if that means anything.

The way Gmane works is that it subscribes to each mailing list with an
address specific to that mailinglist - just like any other subscriber.
When Gmane receives an email for that address, the email is put into the
relevant newsgroup.

If a group on Gmane stops being updated, that usually means that the
address that Gmane subscribed with has been dropped from the list of
subscribers.

That is why I said that you need to talk to the owner of the list if you
want to investigate further.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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