> I didn't go into detail, but I can assure you user emails are not > exposed on the web in Discourse, [...]
I didn't say or imply that. > but a post has to be associated with an account, and an account has > to be verified by emailing the user, and the email is stored in > their private profile so they can, well, receive email. This is a non-trivial problem, I agree. I won't make suggestions how this could probably be solved – I'm sure the Discourse people know all the details already. > And as a last gasp, I recall when I was running the GNU Mailman > lists that we had a web based interface to it which was half way > decent. This may only be supported with GNU Mailman 3, I don't > remember (we are on 2). I think it is called Kitty, and it's part of > the official distribution, or very closely associated with it. Interesting, thanks! > Also, there's a very powerful search engine available for GNU > Mailman which is much more capable than simple text search terms in > the user archive. I suggest that you look at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?idxname=lilypond-user AFAICS, this is much more than a 'simple text search'. Werner