Re: Boost mailing lists again

Edward Diener <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:44:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/18/2020 4:18 PM, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> 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.

What would be gmane's address if it were subscribed to the Boost 
developer's mailing list ?