On 1/11/25 12:48 PM, Janet Cobb via agora-discussion wrote:
Hmm. I think I'd argue that, regardless, people who are doing that are
not truly subscribed to the forum. For instance, if mail-archive went
down but the lists themselves stayed up, I don't think we'd accept that
the lists have ceased to be a forum or that they couldn't send messages.
The "ensure e can receive messages" bit is only a "should", not the
definition of what a public message is.
Would the archives be a separate forum? Conceptually that makes sense to me.
Or, for example, if another mailing list were subscribed to, say, a-b. I
can see an argument that subscribing to that other list is not
equivalent to subscribing to a-b (as you point out, either list might be
down while the other still functions).
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