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Don't. There are more modern and superior solutions like e.g. Discourse. I don't see why people should use old-fashioned things like mailing lists in 2024.

gadflyinyoureye 3y ago
Is Discourse easily searchable from the outside? I was looking up transaction behavior in Postgrsql last night. I came across such an old school mailing list. The utility was that it appeared rather high in the search results.
- bkummel 3y ago
  In my experience, Discourse forums do appear high in search results as well. The added benefit is that they have a good UI to read old threads, unlike mailing lists.
- hprotagonist 3y ago
  discuss.python.org comes up in my search results, sure.
- donalhunt 3y ago
  The OpenStreetMap community decided to go the discourse route after a review of requirements and options available. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum Talk about discourse for OpenStreetMap: https://www.youtube.com/live/VkZJd-4C1Ws https://www.youtube.com/live/VkZJd-4C1Ws
ajb 3y ago
Reminder: 'modern' and 'old-fashioned' are political epithets, not measurable quantites.
gkbrk 3y ago
Discourse has terrible UX compared to other online forums and even mailing lists. Your claim that it's superior needs to clarify exactly what is superior about it.
- deleted 3y ago
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sph 3y ago
I do not have to time to hang about in forums, nor to idle on Discord or IRC. E-mail, on the other hand, is a constant. I can snooze it, read it on Emacs, file it with custom rules, deal with it however I want. It doesn't require any particular app, any particular form of formatting, it doesn't give me points, badges, weekly recap emails, or require me to upload an avatar. I feel mailing lists are underrated, and reading from this thread, it's mostly because the software to run them is as intuitive as Sendmail.
- soegaard 3y ago
  Note that Discourse can be used in "mailing list mode", so you don't have to leave Emacs.

gadflyinyoureye 3y ago

Is Discourse easily searchable from the outside? I was looking up transaction behavior in Postgrsql last night. I came across such an old school mailing list. The utility was that it appeared rather high in the search results.

bkummel 3y ago
In my experience, Discourse forums do appear high in search results as well. The added benefit is that they have a good UI to read old threads, unlike mailing lists.
hprotagonist 3y ago
discuss.python.org comes up in my search results, sure.
donalhunt 3y ago
The OpenStreetMap community decided to go the discourse route after a review of requirements and options available. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_forum Talk about discourse for OpenStreetMap: https://www.youtube.com/live/VkZJd-4C1Ws https://www.youtube.com/live/VkZJd-4C1Ws

ajb 3y ago

Reminder: 'modern' and 'old-fashioned' are political epithets, not measurable quantites.

gkbrk 3y ago

Discourse has terrible UX compared to other online forums and even mailing lists. Your claim that it's superior needs to clarify exactly what is superior about it.

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sph 3y ago

I do not have to time to hang about in forums, nor to idle on Discord or IRC. E-mail, on the other hand, is a constant. I can snooze it, read it on Emacs, file it with custom rules, deal with it however I want. It doesn't require any particular app, any particular form of formatting, it doesn't give me points, badges, weekly recap emails, or require me to upload an avatar. I feel mailing lists are underrated, and reading from this thread, it's mostly because the software to run them is as intuitive as Sendmail.

soegaard 3y ago
Note that Discourse can be used in "mailing list mode", so you don't have to leave Emacs.