[swift-evolution] Mailman?

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Regarding the concern that third-party hosted services will disappear,
allow me to point out that Discourse can be self-hosted. It's only as
likely to disappear as the Mailman installation itself.

It also has a setting to send email notifications for every new post by
default, if you want them.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:06 AM Robert Schwalbe via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> >Mailman is tried and true, but also a bit clunky. Many people might
> >not like participating in these sorts of discussions by email.
> >
> >Has there been any though of using something like Discourse
> >(<http://www.discourse.org/>http://www.discourse.org/) for the Swift
> >mailing lists?
> >
> >Jacob Bandes-Storch
>
> -1 for not using a mailing list (or +1 FOR using a mailng list).
>
> Being able to keep a full searchable archive on my own hardware is
> indispensable.
> Big numbers in an inbox do not scare me. I am in full control in
> maintaining the
> archive and what I may not have any interest in today, I may have tomorrow.
>
> One day, the silos will disappear.
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