Well. What is the outcome of this proposal? It seems that there is not a firm consensus.
- Can we try to direct new people to discussion.f.o. for their introductions and see how it goes? - We could also leave this list active (if there aren't other reasons to shutdown it) in order to allow people to perform propaedeutical activities with a mailing list. IMHO sooner or later, you will encounter a mailing list in your FOSS journey :-D - It is a fact that this mailing list is not used for team's management and discussions, well, apart this thread :-) And it is also a fact that this list is not used for announcements or to suggest easy tasks. And a #join tag is already active on discourse.
Then?
A.