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

[Robin Burek]

Am 19.02.2022 um 01:38 schrieb 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.

Ähm... Why? So e.g. the mozilla discourse could handle Mail-Working too:
[1]
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/how-do-i-use-discourse-via-email/15279#receive-emails-when-active-on-the-site

> Some defining properties of a mailing list:
>
> subscribe by email,
Currently, I also need to visit a website for OSM maillists. Subscribe
by Mail is generally bad. V.a. since one has here in discourse yes then
a connection to the OSM account, that would work even better :)
See here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
I realy don't see any Problem, when I have to enter a mailinglist in
lists.osm.org or I set a bookmark in a category.
Especially I can set the level of observation. (Only the first message
of a thread, all posts, etc....). How exactly this then works with the
replies etc, I do not know. But it works apparently....
> create a new topic by email,
works with discourse, when you use a right config, see [1] "Create
topics via email"
> reply be email,
Also [1] "Reply to topics via email"
> follow all or select threads by email,
Discourse can handle also special operations like
  +1
set watching a topic (when you only get the first message of a thread)
set tracking a topic
set unfollow a toppic.....
> (search by email?!), but should definitely not involve having to do anything in a web browser.

Then this is [@tagging] not a mailinglist ;) (your definition) or @talk
or every else Maillist also not.

Why this works for other discourse instances but not for us, I don't
understand ad hoc...?