Thanks for letting us know. When should people expect to unsubscribe? I read the ToS, privacy policy, and thoughts. Hard pass.
On 11/21/21 1:09 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote: > TL;DR: Go to > > https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > and sign up for Racket Discourse (https://racket.discourse.group/) > > # Thoughts behind the move: > > Over time, it has become steadily more apparent that email-only > mailing lists are an outdated communication medium for the Racket > community. More recent arrivals in our community have generally > chosen other platforms like slack or discord to carry on discussions. > As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio of the racket users mailing list > has dropped below the level of viability. > > In short, it’s time to give up on the mailing list. > > After a good deal of research, it looks like there’s room for a whole > bunch of discussion platforms for Racket, but it also seems as though > there should be a “permanent” one; it should be archived, it should be > searchable in its entirety, and it should not tie us to someone else’s > plan to monetize user data. > > Given these criteria, the winner is Discourse, an open-source > messaging platform built by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam > Saffron. It has a reasonable business model (they host projects like > ours unless they get really big, whereupon you can either host it > yourself or pay them to do it); it’s widely used by other language > communities; and it appears to do most of what we want. > > # So where can I sign up? > > Sign up here: https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > The discourse platform has been in a “soft opening” phase for about > two weeks now, since RacketCon, and we have about a hundred users. > You’re receiving this message because we’d like to have *YOU* there > as well. > > # Can I still receive messages like a mailing list? > > Yes, you can. I have it enabled myself! > To use discord as a mailing-list: > Sign up, go to Preferences > Email, and tick “Enable mailing list mode'. > > Yours, > > John Clements & Stephen De Gabrielle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/9d080367-1b70-4818-8e76-8c6714db404c%40mtasv.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/201d1330-eee7-d440-efc1-8193d2089f8e%40sagegerard.com.
