To add, since I forgot about the spammer: By "leaving the list to die inactive," I am assuming that the list would not be co-opted and would still function just fine as an archive. But I would love to keep the option, even if I only have a small few people to talk to.
On 11/22/21 11:40 AM, Sage Gerard wrote: > Since I missed the hallway I'll settle with a belated comment. > > Over my lifetime I have accumulated hundreds of accounts. Breaches led to > incessant spamming. Thankfully I've kept my passwords varied and strong, so > the damage hasn't terrible to contain. I tried to delete accounts to manage > my risk, only to learn just how hard it is to do that as a U.S. citizen. In > the case of Google, I already had a Google account so I didn't figure the > mailing list would worsen my situation much. > > Point is, I do due diligence now. Adding an account means another legal > agreement, another privacy policy, another social structure, and another > increase in my personal attack surface. I know maintaining a mailing list is > a PITA regardless of its usefulness, so I totally understand moving to > Discourse. I just don't understand this habit of "we're doing this, we want > you to do it too" with sunsetting overtones. 1) it sounds like I'm doing > someone a favor, and 2) this sounds like when someone first said "Racket2", > and I should probably get the fuck outta here before someone throws something. > > I know I'm being dramatic, but please consider just leaving the list to die > inactive if that is to be its fate. The messaging I'm seeing keeps messing > with the community messaging about backwards compatibility, and it's super > confusing. > > On 11/22/21 10:24 AM, Martin Weigele wrote: > >> Am Montag, 22. November 2021, 16:16:35 CET schrieb Jens Axel Søgaard: >> >>> There are no plans of closing the mailing list. >>> >>> Things take time. >>> >>> Different forums for communication have different strengths. >> >> Exactly >> >>> Discourse might attract an audience that is unfamiliar to mailing lists. >>> There is no need to rush things however. >>> In due course maybe the number of users on the forum will >>> grow to outshadow the number of participants on the mailing list, >>> but it will take some years. >> >> A discourse type forum - we had this discussions in other contexts again and >> again - may be a better choice for persons who have the luxury they can >> concentrate on very few thingies. For all others, mailinglists are a much >> better choice, you can follow many developments in one place: your mail >> client, with a completely standard UI. >> >> Cheers >> Martin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> [email protected] >> . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2080281.KiezcSG77Q%40castor >> . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/b9684624-d477-ddf1-d434-b34aa9cc89e9%40sagegerard.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/b9684624-d477-ddf1-d434-b34aa9cc89e9%40sagegerard.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/e3661078-68de-2e59-8485-ff7b8be47722%40sagegerard.com.
