[Tagging] Consensus switching away from mailinglists? Was: Time to split the list?

[bkil]

We talked about this already. The mail functionality of Discourse is
more akin to mail notifications, so it can never replace a mailing
list.

Some defining properties of a mailing list: subscribe by email, create
a new topic by email, reply be email, follow all or select threads by
email, (search by email?!), but should definitely not involve having
to do anything in a web browser.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 12:42 AM Robin Burek <robin.burek at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am 18.02.2022 um 19:06 schrieb Florian Lohoff:
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:40:20AM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> >> With that in mind I think it would be a shame to rework this list only
> >> a few months before we have a better alternative available. I don't
> >> have a view (and I don't think OSMF has taken a view) on what happens
> >> to individual lists after Discourse is made available. If anyone
> >> really does want to have the discussion about which platform is best,
> >> I'd suggest talk@ is a better venue for that discussion than tagging at .
> > Is there a general consensus amongst the users to drop mailinglists per
> > se and switch to web based discussion forms?
>
> That would be a question right to the maintainers of
> community.openstreetmap.org how would the support of mail-services of
> discourse used.
> Discourse CAN support to view channels like a mailinglist. So Discourse
> can support not only web based discussion, it also can connect web based
> an mail based. Then you have the ability to use "push" and "pull"
> communication.
>
> > And i dont think splitting comunitys over and over again into the
> > different communication channels is a good thing to do. By now we
> > have a lot of telegram channels, we have the forum, mailinglists, irc
> > channels, and slack channels.
> >
> > For me adding discourse is like the XKCD about adding another standard.
> I see in Discourse so a more huge step to collect the wider community to
> one tool. Help, Forum and Mailinglist can collected in one tool, so
> these three could set "deprecated" ;) I see in discourse the ability to
> add a new standard, that replace three old ones.
> For adhoc communication would be a main OSM maintaned Matrix-community
> space be best, so others (IRC, Telegram, Slack, I'm shure, there were
> facebook-groups also) could also be deprecated....
>
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