hotspot-dev seems defunct

["Chris Phillips"@T O]

Hi David, Thomas etal,

On 16/06/20 08:48 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Disclaimer: I play no role in mailing list software.
>
> Not sure this is the right alias - perhaps ops at openjdk?
>
Ok,  sent there.
> On 16/06/2020 4:29 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Me and at least four colleagues at SAP have not received mail from the
>> hotspot-dev mailing list since about six weeks. This issue was somewhat
>> hidden by the fact that cross posted mails still arrive via other
>> subscriptions.
>>
>> This affects recipient addresses from both inside and outside SAP, so 
>> the
>> issue is unlikely to be on our side. We have also not received any of 
>> the
>> usual "excessive bounces" mails and according to Stefan none happened.
>
> Two weeks ago there was an issue with RedHat folk not getting mail 
> from hotspot-runtime-dev, and it was reported that SAP had previously 
> had a similar issue - and I'm led to believe that in both cases the 
> problem was an email glitch at the receivers end.
>
> David
> -----
>
>> Furthermore, the subscription service does not seem to work. I cannot
>> resubscribe, get my password, I cannot even subscribe with a brand 
>> new mail
>> address.
>>
>> At first glance other MLs seem still to work but I did not check every
>> single one.
>>
>> Do others have similar issues or is it just us?
>>
>> This should be really solved. MLs feel unreliable now, and they are the
>> main channel of communication with the OpenJDK community.
>>
>> Could we implement some periodic Ping message to the mailing lists, lets
>> say once per week, to notice earlier when these kind of issues happen?
>> Also, is it possible to resend mails?
>>
>> Thanks, Thomas
>>
>
>
>
Nothing from hotspot-dev since April 28.

{Log starts at the beginning of the year... but I have them archived for 
a long time ;-) }

Jan  2 02:57:29 28116 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Jan  2 07:03:53 28331 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Jan  2 08:27:50 28447 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Jan  2 08:47:38 28474 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Jan  2 11:46:06 28700 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
...

Apr 28 07:00:12 5303 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:07:51 5316 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:07:53 5318 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:08:00 5326 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:15:53 5344 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:18:04 5381 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:18:08 5386 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:22:54 5399 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:29:53 5426 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:31:48 5469 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:39:54 5531 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
Apr 28 07:41:27 5536 mail ok: hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net -> 
<ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
[Nothing since...]


Cheers!

ChrisPhi