Gerald B. Cox wrote:
If the requirement is that discourse completely replicate 100% the
functionality of mailing lists, that is unreasonable and isn't going to
happen.
If the plan is to replace mailing lists with something that cannot even
provide the same functionality, 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:
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/lets-try-to-emulate-a-mailing-l...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailing-lists-majordomo-or-othe...
You can find more examples with a web search.
But you are assuming that we actually WANT to migrate, which is NOT the
case.
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."
But what about the die-hard NNTP users? You entirely ignored my post to
which you are supposedly replying.
Personally, I don't like my mailbox filled up with mailing list
postings.
Then use either NNTP through Gmane (
news.gmane.org, default port 119,
STARTTLS supported; and the trick to be able to post without getting treated
as spam is to subscribe to the mailing list, but disable mail delivery), or
HyperKitty (web interface, should just work).
Since you like web interfaces, why does HyperKitty not fulfill your needs?
Kevin Kofler