OK, I think we can drop the discourse on Discourse :-) I see that it is
too big a change for the users of this list. Running GNU Mailman 2 in
parallel with the list is not something I'm prepared to do, even though
it could just barely be made to work. It's a pity people object to this
newer technology as the mailing list function of Discourse is precisely
equivalent to what you have now. It's only limited in comparison to the
very very costly LISTSERV mailing list software.
Anyway, there is cost involved in running a Linux server, and there is
also constant maintenance to do, so given that this suggestion has
flopped I won't push the idea any further. But I do want to disabuse
people of the notion that advertising is involved. Neither the self
hosted version nor the Enterprise hosted version come with
advertisements and there is no support for that in the software anyway.
And also by the way, the emails come out threaded by topic, just as they
do here in this list, and so its very easy to follow conversations on a
topic.
Andrew
