Well, FWIW, I am on quite a few Discourse boards I find interesting, and I’m glad the “Mailing List Mode” feature is there, but honestly, it’s probably easier to just go to the board and reply there, at least on desktop. It’s bloated, but it’s not impossibly inaccessible. Also, yes, you can “Follow” just the topics/boards you’re interested in; that “Mailing List Mode” setting is somewhat misnamed, in that you must use the correct address to reach the right board (or reply to a post you have received). It’s a neat trick, when you can get it, but it’s not a pinch on a proper mailing list.
By contrast, I’m not on any Mailman3 or Sympa lists, that I’m aware of. This is strange, but it probably has something to do with the fact that both are very, very complex pieces of software, with large dependency lists; the transition from Mailman2 (which, in a distant and rosy past, even *I* thought was too heavy) doesn’t seem to have gone as quickly as perhaps the project hoped. What I have seen of them, though, does suggest that they are friendlier to us than most modern forum software. And Mailman3 has moved away from the silly requirement to use per-list passwords, greatly easing its use from a user perspective. freelists.org <http://freelists.org/> was still using Ecartis, the last time I checked. This is obsolete software, but while I ranted at Mailman2 for being bloated, this was what I used too. It was lovely. Unfortunately, it’s not really fit for our modern world, particularly in its MIME support. Guess that’s what you get for writing it in C. Even though most of this software now has a web interface, I can’t think of software that doesn’t have an email interface of some sort. ezmlm-idx and mlmmj are still used to power some of the lists I’m on, and they’re email-only. The convention of listname+subscribe@ and listname+unsubscribe@ is something very much borrowed from these two spirit sisters of the original ezmlm. For blindness lists, I doubt there’s really much need for more than this, for most purposes, where these sorts of discussion drop boxes are concerned. It is surprising (and, honestly, delightful) to me that we keep using the email interface, simply because it’s intuitive and works. mlmmj is a compelling option if you don’t use the qmail mail server, which no right-thinking person does any more. :) Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/610DA9EF-AB33-4AF4-A3F6-F23FE184FECE%40me.com.
