Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: > Discourse does allow anonymous email replies. > https://blog.discourse.org/2016/07/reply-by-email-enabled-for-all-discourse-customers/ > (search "unregistered")
I did not know that - thanks for the pointer. I'd interested in exploring a use-case: does anyone know of a Discourse instance that is *fully* bridged with a mailing list? In the hypothesis of 1. someone maintains a Discourse instance for Org users 2. this instance proves to be very useful to many Org users 3. we find an example of a full ML/Discourse bridge that works 3. Org maintainers decide at some point to promote it from org-mode-community-forum.org to forum.orgmode.org then I'd be in favor of a *partial* bridge with the list, forwarding only topics that have a "ML" category, for example. This way forum.orgmode.org would compete with reddit, stackoverflow, etc. as a user-to-user platform without competing with the list as the place to contribute to Org's development. This is the same reasoning than the one I presented on how to handle third-places like reddit/SO: it is good if they offer various ways for users to interact with each other *provided* that we have a good way to ensure that we the ML don't lose those interactions that belongs to the ML (bug reports, patches, feature requests, etc.) - the "way" here is to ask for Org contributor stewards on these places. I hope this all makes sense - I suggest we revisit this topics in a few months, so that we can all focus on releasing Org 9.6. -- Bastien
