On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:23:48 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote:
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:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-limits-for-outgoing-mails-per-user/41458
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:
https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/lets-try-to-emulate-a-mailing-list
/1003
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailing-lists-majordomo-or-otherw
ise/65769
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.
If you would like, I could assist you in setting up your email client, and in
filtering your mailing lists into folders. You can also access your email on
your phone, if you wish to do so.
Other than things like emoji responses, I can tell you how to do just about
anything that you can on Discourse using Email.
It's not that one is modern and the other is not.
--
John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
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