Re: No longer supporting mailing lists:

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On Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 03:38, John Harris wrote:
> On Monday, August 26, 2019 4:54:09 AM MST Markus Larsson wrote:
> > It seems that the only thing in that link that has merit in regards to this
> > list is that discourse allow editing of messages that has been sent.

Which I'd consider a misfeature.

> > As for the other things I disagree with pretty much everything. I don't
> > think email is too hard to use, I don't think large mailinglists are a
> > problem, I don't see any spam here, I don't think linking to things in
> > emails is hard etc.
> > 
> > Discourse has many uses but it pushes people toward a single interface where
> > as mailinglists let's people be much more free to choose their own
> > interfaces. And yes, discourse can email me when things happen, the
> > formatting of mail does make following the conversation much harder than a
> > simple maillinglist.
[...]

Agreed.

> > On 26 August 2019 13:33:38 CEST, "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >If you disagree with something that is stated, you need to in detail
> > >explain why, not just claim it is marketing and therefore invalid.
> 
> Consider also that
> 
> 1) You can't forward or CC on an email reply to Discourse, or you're opening 
> up your account so that anyone can reply as you.
> 
> 2) Its formatting is completely broken, and edited messages don't get sent out 
> to the "mailing list mode" subscribers.
> 
> 3) You can't x-post a message
> 
> 4) You can't easily create a thread based on another thread
> 
> 5) It doesn't send out more than a set number of emails a day, regardless of 
> what goes through.
> 
> All this, among a few other things we addressed when the CommOps folks were 
> moving to Discourse.

6) You can't reply to messages older than 90 days via e-mail. You'll get
a bounce.

Regards,
Dominik
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