On 25/6/21 4:35 pm, Karl Auer wrote: > ... Utterly unfounded optimism. ... Just make sure you REALLY test it before you get too invested.
Thanks, wilco! (Maybe I *am* being to Pollyannaish - or at least applying my aunty's dictum - 'believe well of people until you have grounds for believing otherwise' - in inappropriate circumstances). After my first half-hour earlier this afternoon, my notes say: > I can’t say I’m really making sense of this as I should be. > The navigation is opaque. > The meaning/purpose/use of Categories, Tags, Groups and a few other important-sounding concepts that go fizzing by on various pages, badly need an accessible Glossary / Tutorial. (I didn't get to force any emails to be sent to myself. I'll have to establish a second persona to achieve that). __________________ On 25/6/21 4:35 pm, Karl Auer wrote: > On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 13:12 +1000, Roger Clarke wrote: >> Karl Auer wrote on Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:47:07 +1000: ... >> >> Below are initial mumbles (a discourse?) on Discourse as a solution. > > I cannot emphasise enough that Discourse has no usable mailing list > capability. It looks like it does, it says it does, it has mailing list > configuration settings. If you give it a quick spin it may even appear > to work. Some users will even tell you that it's working for them. Such > users either do not see or have not needed real mailing list > capabilities. > > It DOES NOT work as a mailing list. > > Specifically (and this is just the highlights): > - it strips signatures > - it strips original senders > - it breaks quoting > - forum users must elect to quote - which they usually don't, because > of course they can see the thread already > - it randomly forgets configuration settings e.g. digest > - it partially ignores some configuration settings > - it forces the use of the forum for some operations such as direct > reply > - the vendor has shown zero interest in fixing any of this. > > Use it as a forum by all means (taken with the grains of salt re > threads, searching etc), but do not expect to use it as a mailing list. > It is completely broken in that department. > >> But by signing up a pseudo-member to receive everything by email, it >> should auto-dump everything into .eml in that mailbox. > > Utterly unfounded optimism. Given my initial (I thought very clear) > statements about Discourse, why would you expect that to work? Well - > who knows. Maybe it does now. Just make sure you REALLY test it before > you get too invested. > > Regards, K. > -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
