Re: [boost] Gmane going away

Subject: Re: [boost] Gmane going away
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-18 08:17:23

On 08/18/16 15:03, Raffi Enficiaud wrote:
> Le 29/07/16 à 14:10, Tom Kent a écrit :
>> So it looks like Gmane is under attack and the guy who runs it is
>> thinking
>> about just turning it off (that would be sad).
>> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/
>>
>> Anyway, I know a lot of boost users use is as the gnu mailman archive
>> pages
>> are really hard to use. I would like to propose that we (specifically the
>> list owner(s)) mirror the boost mailing lists to the mail-archive.com
>> site.
>> It has good search features and decent thread browse-ability.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Tom
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the (lack of) reactions, it sounds like not so much people
> are using gmane. Personally I use news.gmane.org for boost posting
> (news://news.gmane.org:119/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel with thunderbird)
> and I am curious how people do if they are alternatives.

Personally, I'm using email for both posting and reading. I've been 
using Gmane for searching the archives when I needed a reference, and 
currently I have no replacement.