Matthew Miller wrote: > There _are_ email notifications, You keep talking about "notifications". I don't want a notification saying "somebody said something; run our Javascript program to find out what it was". I want the actual message delivered to my mailbox. But some people in this thread talk as if it's possible to get the actual messages by email. I even see some hints that a proper tree view might be possible. But many others say the email features of Discourse are no good. The overall picture is unclear and far from convincing. > and you can interact by replying to them. You let the quarrel go this far before you even bothered to mention that? You're clearly not serious about selling the email features of Discourse. You're trying to convince email users that your preferred communication program is better than their preferred communication program. Users of various email programs are saying no, the program I have chosen works better for my needs. Do you also waste time trying to convince Emacs users to switch to Vi? Instead of trying to make everybody use the same Javascript program, what you should do is show how your preferred program implements the relevant standards to be interoperable with my preferred program, so that we can communicate while each using our respective programs. If it's not interoperable, then that's where the problem is. So how complete is Discourse's email functionality actually? Can it be used as a mailing list server, or not? > Do take a look at > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/guide-to-interacting-with-this-site-by-email/25960 Okay okay fine! I'll start up a browser in which the Javascript program even works and go read in the Javascript program about how I might not have to use the Javascript program. So it says a "tag" is supposed to be sort of like a mailing list, but there's only a single global email address for starting new threads. There's no way to send to a specific tag. Thus it's impossible to post to a specific mailing-list-equivalent. How am I supposed to ensure that my messages reach the appropriate audience? Maybe by replying? It's rather unclear how replies by email are handled, but I can guess that they're given the same tag as the message they reply to. If that's the case, then it almost seems like they *want* people to reply to an irrelevant thread instead of posting a new thread. I suppose a more likely explanation is that the email notifications are meant to draw users back to the Javascript program. Either way, according to that post the answer is no, Discourse is not usable as a list server. Those who want to replace Mailman with Discourse should work on improving its email capabilities until it can be used as a list server. Björn Persson
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