Re: [boost] Gmane going away

Subject: Re: [boost] Gmane going away
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-18 08:28:17

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> 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.

I used to use gmane with thunderbird long ago.. No I just use gmail for
reading, sending, and searching. Which means I have a decade's worth of
Boost related emails archived in my email account :-) But if I have to post
a reference to an old email I find it first in my gmail then search for the
same one in the mailman archives.

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