On 2020-04-13, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:33:13 -0000 (UTC) > Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hello Curt, > >>There could be a channel to connect the pools > > There have, in the past existed gateways between mailing lists and usenet > newsgroups. They worked well, for the most part.
I'm using one at this very moment. > Web forums to email rarely works as well, since web forum text editors > allow for all sorts of formatting guff that doesn't translate to email > well, if at all despite how good the translating part of the forum > software is supposed to work (it's always second class). *Especially* > when reactionaries like me insist on having plain text emails, or at > least emails with a plain text part. > > I *never* read the HTML part. > As Brian P. has already sort of implied, some might find it hard to believe in the total sincerity of a change to Discourse for debian-user (a community of users for users by users) in the name of inclusiveness and respectfulness (dixit Steve M.) that expressly does *not* include (and therefore cannot rightfully respect) debian-users in the decisional discourse, who had to rely on a heads up by Reco to abruptly discover we had a King who fails to consult his subjects.
