I read all the comments and my response is this...
First of all, there is no limit to the amount of emails that discourse will send out. That is a site parameter, and whomever supports it for Fedora needs to change it:
If the requirement is that discourse completely replicate 100% the functionality of mailing lists, that is unreasonable and isn't going to happen. As I mentioned earlier there are several groups working on this or have done migration from mailing lists to discourse:
You can find more examples with a web search.
A key comment was: "Our site is still quite busy, although some people are still grumbling
about the change, 8 months later. The die-hard email users are still
able to participate, which came as a bit of a pleasant shock to them. I
think they were fully expecting that once we moved to a modern platform,
they’d be forced to use a web interface."
Personally, I don't like my mailbox filled up with mailing list postings. I prefer to uses the discourse rss interface to scan for topics and then go directly to it to respond. Instead of writing a "me too" email, I can simply click a like button to show I'm in agreement. It's easier to see the full context of a thread. With the current situation I have to go scan the archives. I like to use the mobile app to read and reply from my phone. For every item mentioned about discourse doesn't do A, B, C with mailing lists I can counter with an item that email lists cannot do. The fact is that for the vast majority of people, the discourse mailing list functionality is good enough - and as time goes on it continues to improve - but again, it's not reasonable to expect or demand 100%. IMO the pros outweigh the cons.
The top of this email thread is: No longer supporting mailing lists
and my understanding is that Fedora is searching for people to take over support. Seems to me that is a good time to consider switching to discourse. From reading experiences of people who did the migration, it's easier to support.
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