<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:43 PM, James Berry via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Since many will likely want to continue to access the discussion via mail, I have some questions for anybody who actually has real-life experience in using Discourse primarily via email:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Can one sign up to receive all posts within a project via email? Or does one need to sign up for email on a thread-by-thread basis?</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, it's called "mailing list mode". Looks like this: <a href="http://discourse.natecook.com/t/pitch-replace-discourse-with-a-mailing-list/3052/3?u=jtbandes">http://discourse.natecook.com/t/pitch-replace-discourse-with-a-mailing-list/3052/3?u=jtbandes</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>2. Can one receive email notifications of new threads?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mailing list mode enables this.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>3. How does one create a new thread via email? (presumably just by sending an email with a new subject, ala mailing list?)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, here's an example: <a href="http://discourse.natecook.com/t/an-evaluation-of-mailing-list-mode/3053/1" target="_blank">http://discourse.natecook.com/<wbr>t/an-evaluation-of-mailing-<wbr>list-mode/3053/1</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Based on my (limited, non-subscriber-to-discourse) experience so far, I would vote for the status quo, perhaps based on years of using mailing lists via email. But I’m trying to be open minded.</div><div><br></div><div>James</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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