I read all the comments and my response is this...
First of all, there is no limit to the amount of emails that discourse will
send out.  That is a site parameter, and whomever supports it for Fedora
needs to change it:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-limits-for-outgoing-mails-per-user/41458

If the requirement is that discourse completely replicate 100% the
functionality of mailing lists, that is unreasonable and isn't going to
happen.  As I mentioned earlier there are several groups working on this or
have done migration from mailing lists to discourse:

https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/lets-try-to-emulate-a-mailing-list/1003
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailing-lists-majordomo-or-otherwise/65769

You can find more examples with a web search.

A key comment was:  "Our site is still quite busy, although some people are
still grumbling about the change, 8 months later. The die-hard email users
are still able to participate, which came as a bit of a pleasant shock to
them. I think they were fully expecting that once we moved to a modern
platform, they’d be forced to use a web interface."

Personally, I don't like my mailbox filled up with mailing list postings.
I prefer to uses the discourse rss interface to scan for topics and then go
directly to it to respond.  Instead of writing a "me too" email, I can
simply click a like button to show I'm in agreement.  It's easier to see
the full context of a thread.  With the current situation I have to go scan
the archives. I like to use the mobile app to read and reply from my
phone.  For every item mentioned about discourse doesn't do A, B, C with
mailing lists I can counter with an item that email lists cannot do.  The
fact is that for the vast majority of people, the discourse mailing list
functionality is good enough - and as time goes on it continues to improve
- but again, it's not reasonable to expect or demand 100%.  IMO the pros
outweigh the cons.

The top of this email thread is:  No longer supporting mailing lists
and my understanding is that Fedora is searching for people to take over
support.  Seems to me that is a good time to consider switching to
discourse.  From reading experiences of people who did the migration, it's
easier to support.
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