To add, since I forgot about the spammer: By "leaving the list to die inactive," I am assuming that the list would not be co-opted and would still function just fine as an archive. But I would love to keep the option, even if I only have a small few people to talk to.
On 11/22/21 11:40 AM, Sage Gerard wrote: > Since I missed the hallway I'll settle with a belated comment. > > Over my lifetime I have accumulated hundreds of accounts. Breaches led to > incessant spamming. Thankfully I've kept my passwords varied and strong, so > the damage hasn't terrible to contain. I tried to delete accounts to manage > my risk, only to learn just how hard it is to do that as a U.S. citizen. In > the case of Google, I already had a Google account so I didn't figure the > mailing list would worsen my situation much. > > Point is, I do due diligence now. Adding an account means another legal > agreement, another privacy policy, another social structure, and another > increase in my personal attack surface. I know maintaining a mailing list is > a PITA regardless of its usefulness, so I totally understand moving to > Discourse. I just don't understand this habit of "we're doing this, we want > you to do it too" with sunsetting overtones. 1) it sounds like I'm doing > someone a favor, and 2) this sounds like when someone first said "Racket2", > and I should probably get the fuck outta here before someone throws something. > > I know I'm being dramatic, but please consider just leaving the list to die > inactive if that is to be its fate. The messaging I'm seeing keeps messing > with the community messaging about backwards compatibility, and it's super > confusing. > > On 11/22/21 10:24 AM, Martin Weigele wrote: > >> Am Montag, 22. November 2021, 16:16:35 CET schrieb Jens Axel Søgaard: >> >>> There are no plans of closing the mailing list. >>> >>> Things take time. >>> >>> Different forums for communication have different strengths. >> >> Exactly >> >>> Discourse might attract an audience that is unfamiliar to mailing lists. >>> There is no need to rush things however. >>> In due course maybe the number of users on the forum will >>> grow to outshadow the number of participants on the mailing list, >>> but it will take some years. >> >> A discourse type forum - we had this discussions in other contexts again and >> again - may be a better choice for persons who have the luxury they can >> concentrate on very few thingies. For all others, mailinglists are a much >> better choice, you can follow many developments in one place: your mail >> client, with a completely standard UI. >> >> Cheers >> Martin >> >> -- >> 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 >> racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/2080281.KiezcSG77Q%40castor >> . > > -- > 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/b9684624-d477-ddf1-d434-b34aa9cc89e9%40sagegerard.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/b9684624-d477-ddf1-d434-b34aa9cc89e9%40sagegerard.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). -- 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/e3661078-68de-2e59-8485-ff7b8be47722%40sagegerard.com.
