> it’s becoming apparent to me that setting up posting via email is frankly difficult; I think that monitoring the list using mailing-list mode is plausible, but posting, at this point, is not.
I had a chat with a Discourse consultant and they thought posting by email was possible if you self host, but self hosting with mailing list would require both a hosting provider, and a send mail provider (he uses digital ocean with sendgrid or mailgun). Receiving email is handled by the 'mail receiver container' if you are self hosting. It was a casual conversation, and I don't know him well. It would be good to know if other PL communities have done this stephen On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 6:47 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Users < racket-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Your points are well taken, and moving away from a traditional mailing > list is not a decision that we took lightly; the fact is that we were > simply *failing* when it came to moderating the mailing list as run by > google groups, and running one through mailman was even worse. It appears > that discourse will allow us to spread the load of moderating the group > across the members of the group, rather than depending on one or two points > of failure. > > BTW, lest you think that I think that discourse solves all our problems: > it’s becoming apparent to me that setting up posting via email is frankly > difficult; I think that monitoring the list using mailing-list mode is > plausible, but posting, at this point, is not. I guess I shouldn’t be > shocked: that’s the whole problem with email, it’s not authenticated in any > reasonable or widely used way. > > Regardless, I’m happy with the move: we have about 181 people registered, > and the volume there looks robust and sustainable. > > John > > > On Dec 8, 2021, at 13:16, George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > On 12/8/2021 12:34 PM, James Platt wrote: > >> On Dec 8, 2021, at 10:45 AM, George Neuner wrote: > >> > >> > It's a big deal if you are (or were) following multiple groups. > >> > >> I don't understand. Why is this an issue? I find it very convenient > to filter each group into it's own folder in email. If this were a > non-technical group, you wouldn't expect everyone to know how to do that > but anyone who is a programmer ought to have no problem configuring filters > and folders. > > > > If you had continued reading, you would have seen my comment that NOT > ALL news groups support list distribution or posting via email. NNTP is not > email. Usenet group moderators[*] can choose how to make their groups > available: the default is via list distribution and NNTP both, but the > moderator can deliberately disable one or the other - or only enable > digests via email, or disable posting. > > > > My complaint is having to read some things via NNTP and others through > email because, while there are programs that do both, I haven't found any > single program that does BOTH WELL. And that is without even considering > the growing number of ... don't want to confuse by saying "groups", let's > call them "crowds" ... that have abandoned Usenet entirely in favor of web > forums. > > > > George > > > > [*] even unmoderated groups have a moderator/administrator - by default > it is whoever started the group. > > > > > > -- > > 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/5f176666-59b4-a381-ddd7-25b435887694%40comcast.net > . > > -- > 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/bacee3b2-b372-4dd0-af60-c657ba984936%40mtasv.net > . > -- 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-LurQpXeyr_Q4cbZZyceOO3x3hiymu4n2rEWNYA0cAK3w%40mail.gmail.com.
