On 2025-07-11 at 09:06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> The web interface is exactly the same as the mailing lists, which >> are exactly the same as the newsgroups, which also produces an >> ATOM/RSS feed and an IRC bot. Any access reads and, if possible, >> posts to the same streams of messages. > > I think something like this -- which presents/repurposes an existing > community -- is likely the best way forward. I think GNU Mailman 3 > in theory can do something similar, but I haven't seen many instances > of that (and the sites I am aware of using Mailman 2 are reluctant to > move to 3. Debian does not use Mailman.) While this may be the least bad of the available options, it is still a bad option. The reason is that in the large majority of cases, what constitutes good posting behavior (and, specifically, good *quoting* behavior) on a Web forum vs. in E-mail is *different*. (Newsgroups are functionally similar to mailing lists in this regard.) If you quote in patterns that are appropriate for the Web-forum interface, you will likely be underquoting for the mailing list. If you quote in patterns that are appropriate for the mailing list, you will likely be overquoting for the Web-forum interface. I am not aware of any potential solution for this that has seemed to me as if it would actually be viable. If I'm missing any that would, or if I'm wrong and some of the ones I've dismissed as non-viable actually would be viable, I would be *actively glad* about that. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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