> 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 < [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-LurQpXeyr_Q4cbZZyceOO3x3hiymu4n2rEWNYA0cAK3w%40mail.gmail.com.
