It may be interesting to consider also an architecture like USENET/NNTP in this context. It is not without flaws, but it admits some additional options in highly-loaded situations, such as prioritizing pushing of articles to peer servers over serving connections from clients.
-chaw > From: Michael Downey <mich...@downey.net> > To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 05:19:57 -0700 > Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] resources about mailing lists vs. forums > (e.g. Discourse) > > [...] > > So there is, in fact, parity to something like mailman where you have > individuals' email archives & the online web-based archive. Of course, > if you weren't subscribed to get emails from the forum, you wouldn't > have your own copy -- in exactly the same way that you wouldn't have > such emails if you weren't subscribed to the mailing list or only read > digests, or read it on the online archive. Services like the Internet > Archive can also crawl & save snapshots of the site at given times, as > well. > > Michael _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss