On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 16:50 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In some ways many of us consider the Discourse platform to be
significantly inferior to a mailing list. It does offer a mailing list
interface but in several respects it is inadequate. I refer you to this
post which goes into some detail:
Oh, and additionally...
This reminds me of using Facebook. I'll get an email saying "someone
sent you a message," and that's it. They don't email me the message,
nor give me any clue about it (and, obviously, I can't simply email a
reply back). I have to log into Facebook to read it.
Nothing about that is done for my convenience. It's all about dragging
you into their ecosystem and exploiting you.
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uname -rsvp
Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13
18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically
deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing
list.