Re: Boost mailing lists again

On 8/21/2020 3:56 PM, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> Edward writes:
> 
>> So are you saying that if a message is sent from [email protected]
>> to [email protected] it should be reflected on the
>> gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel newsgroup ?
> 
> If the email reaches Gmane, yes.
> 
>> If that is the case should I not be able to test this out by asking
>> the [email protected] owner to send some sort of test message from
>> [email protected] to [email protected] and cc me at the
>> same time ?
> 
> I think the next step is to check the the mail log of of the
> lists.boost.org server to see if emails logged as delivered to
> m.gmane-mx.org.
> 
> If they are, it would make sense to either post the log-snippet here or
> mail it to Lars and ask why the mail doesn't show up in the newsgroup.
> 
>> Does this sound like a viable way of testing from where the problem is
>> coming, or have I missed something ?
> 
> We won't learn much if the email arrives in your inbox and doesn't
> appear on Gmane, which is what I would expect to happen.
> 
> What you are proposing is the equivalent of you subscribing to the
> mailing list and waiting for the first message to arrive after that. And
> that wouldn't waste every subscriber of the list's time by sending a
> test message to all of them.

It was discovered that the problem was on the Boost end, where the 
[email protected] was put on some sort of suppressed list because 
it had bounced at some time in the recent past.