Re: Boost mailing lists again
Edward Diener <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:44:49 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.discuss |
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| 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 ?