Can a forum be configured to send each new post to the mailing list with proper subject line?
If so, that would enable a best-of-both-worlds scenario—or at least the ability to dip our toes in a forum to see if it works, while still showing everything on-list. Nevin On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:57 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Signing up for mailing lists is straightforward, yes—but that’s only a >> small part of it. Signing up for a mailing list is a *commitment.* Once you >> do it, your inbox will be inundated with mailing list posts, making it >> difficult to find messages that actually have been intended for you >> personally. Therefore, you’ll have to deal with that somehow. You can set >> up rules in Mail to route mailing list posts to a separate folder, but that >> won’t help you if you access your webmail from a public machine. >> >> >> FWIW, I subscribe to many mailing lists in gmail and have it auto filter >> emails to mailing lists into a separate mailbox (well, really, tags) for >> each list. It works great for me. >> >> This doesn’t detract from your point about it being a commitment though. >> > > It does kind of imply a follow-up question, though: is it _undesirable_ > that signing up for a mailing list is a modicum of commitment? > > > I’m mixed on that. On the one hand, it is great to have some level of > commitment before people inject their opinion into the mix for some > discussion. OTOH, I’m sympathetic to the desire that a lot of people want > to just “follow along” without participating, and the mailman web interface > is pretty uninspired. > > -Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > >
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