On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 15:11 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Shutting down a list breaks a link between some (many?) users and the > OpenOffice project. Agree If, instead, we switch the list -and other > low-activity lists- to "members only" mode, the moderator will have just > minimal activity and conversation can be started at any time (and of > course new members can join by self-subscribing as usual). > > Note that I'm also writing this as moderator of a couple lists: I agree with Andrea's point. I moderate the virtualbox users community mailing list that Sun Microsystems decided to discontinue at one pint in favor of web based forums. So we moved it to a mailman list hosted on sourceforge, and made it subscribers-only. It has been low-volume but very useful for user that for whatever reason prefer a mailing list over web forums. Just my $0.02 FC
