[Imports] Decommission this mailing list

[Andy Townsend]

On 13/06/2025 12:21, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> michael spreng <talk at osm.datendelphin.net> hat am 13.06.2025 geschrieben:
>>
>> The OpenStreetMap Community forum has a mailinglist like interface
>> enabled, which works well enough.
> Not really.  The so called mailing list mode of discourse presents email users with a different reality than those using the web interface and does not provide an archive for the email version of reality.  In short: email users are second class citizens in discourse.


I've been critical of Discourse in the past as forum software for a 
couple of reasons, but I use Discourse's mailing list mode all the time, 
and the idea that you get "a different reality" in emails to what is 
visible in the forum is simply untrue.

By "the email version of reality" I presume you mean "what was in a post 
originally, before any edits"?  Discourse literally does provide an 
archive of this.  As an example 
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-would-you-describe-the-identity-of-openstreetmap/130372 
has been edited 8 times, and each of those edits can be viewed. Is there 
any other reason why you think "email users are second class citizens"?

I'd also argue that what's important about an import is the links that a 
notification here has - see for example 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2025-February/007291.html 
, not what was written to this list.  Also, the "list archive" isn't 
always useful - see the last "announcement" here 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2025-May/007294.html .

Best Regards,

Andy