Hi,

I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave
foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes.

Thanks,
Meg

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:22 AM Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +0000, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > It's
> > even possible to make Discourse behave like an mailing list.
> I found the discourse mailing list mode to be inferior to a mailing
> list.
>
> For example, code posted on the Web looks much different than what gets
> sent via email, cf. https://ibb.co/g3nHtB5. I don't think it's possible
> to discuss code like that.
> Another issue I have is that the "mailing list mode" effectively
> subscribes you to every "mailing list" rather than the one you were
> interested in.
> I appreciate that the "guide to discourse with email" posted at
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46
> mentions that the mailing list mode is "hardcore", but the alternatives
> are lacking.  That is, "watching" a topic doesn't send you an email if you
> have read (or written) something on the Web interface. At least that didn't
> work for me.
> I can now mute topics, but then I get surprised as soon as new mailing
> lists are being created on the discourse platform.
>
> Or have I just not found the right buttons to click?
>
>
> Also, I wonder what the expected benefits of blocking replies to a
> thread that hasn't received a message for 14 days are. Or is that just
> default configuration that hasn't been changed?
>
> Cheers,
>   Tobi
>
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