Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 01:59 +, Dan Kortschak wrote: > This has been my experience with GNOME decision makers in other areas > as well. Failure to engage, diminution of concerns and then moving on > with the tired refrain of it's open source so your could fix it > yourself, and then cycling

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 02:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 02:24 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 22:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 02:24 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 22:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about using > > > Discourse that I have gained in just a day of

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 22:08 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about using > > Discourse that I have gained in just a day of using it. A day is not > > very long and I may not have fully

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about using > Discourse that I have gained in just a day of using it. A day is not > very long and I may not have fully understood everything - but there > again, I am, apparently, the top

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 19:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote: > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > First, a thought about the demise of the Mailman mailing list. > > A while back FreeBSD migrated from Mailman to another Software and > the > still provide the old

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 19:14 +0200, Torsten Krah wrote: > The problem is we do only have a few days left to discuss that Hi, in 2021 a member of the Ubuntu community started to run an off-topic mailing list. It has got very low traffic, the list archive only contains January 2021, February 2021,

Re: [Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 17:36 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > First, a thought about the demise of the Mailman mailing list. A while back FreeBSD migrated from Mailman to another Software and the still provide the old Mailman archive + the Archive of the new mailing list software, for example

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

I do have the skills to drive a mailman list from an infrastructure point of view including all the mta, spam etc. stuff with postfix & co, DNS etc. pp. We would need a maildomain + some hosting provider and now here it gets interesting - at least it is much less than the group.io prices written

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

+1 On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 12:47 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > If this is real, then the "communicating" has been sadly lacking. > This > is the first I've heard of it. > > > I'm sorry, but I find "Forum" type things, which I believe is what > Discourse is, not at all intuitive and I hate

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 09:53 -0500, Anonymous Japhering via evolution- list wrote: > The free level only allows up to 100 members -- how many folks are in > the current list? Around 850 at the moment. > All levels have restrictions on archive size:  1GB, 30GB, 1TB. Anyone > know how big, size

[Evolution] Thoughts on Discourse and use as a mailing list

I thought I would put together some of my thoughts about using Discourse that I have gained in just a day of using it. A day is not very long and I may not have fully understood everything - but there again, I am, apparently, the top poster on the topic with most replies in the Application

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 09:53 -0500, Anonymous Japhering wrote: > Groups.io is interesting but also there are a few concerning things > The free level only allows up to 100 members -- how many folks are in >  the current list? >   >  All levels have restrictions on archive size:  1GB, 30GB, 1TB.

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On 10/21/22 11:50, Brewster Gillett wrote: Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list wrote: A quick and simple question: who is in position to decide to move this list to another mailing list, hosted elsewhere? There have been already a few propositions on this list for an alternative. Who is the

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 13:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > So the way to get it working as a proper mailing list is by turning > off Mailing List Mode. So intuitive. Agreed it's really poorly named. I think the idea is that if you enable it then it's as if the entire Discourse site becomes

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 13:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > So the way to get it working as a proper mailing list is by turning off > Mailing List Mode. So intuitive. Hi, yesno, even after doing so, it is not working as a proper mailing list. The emails are still multipart messages with

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 08:50 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 13:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I seem to be getting them now. Trouble is, I'm also getting stuff > > that has absolutely nothing to do with Evolution, despite having > > set > > a tag (or whatever it's

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 13:42 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I seem to be getting them now. Trouble is, I'm also getting stuff > that has absolutely nothing to do with Evolution, despite having set > a tag (or whatever it's called) to "Evolution". If you set "Mailing list mode" in your

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 14:02 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: > On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 14:09 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list > wrote: > > Dnia 21.10.2022 o godz. 13:04:15 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze: > > > > > > It seems to take some time. I suspect Discourse is batching > > > emails. > > I've

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 14:09 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list wrote: > Dnia 21.10.2022 o godz. 13:04:15 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze: > > > > It seems to take some time. I suspect Discourse is batching emails. I've been receiving them frequently. I signed up a couple of hours ago and have

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 20:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Brewster Gillett said on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:50:24 -0700 > > > > Excellent question. I'll toss out this possibility: > > > > > > > > We're using groups.io for a couple of the Mensa discussion lists > > I'm > > on.

Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when trying to compose email

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 10:23 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 19:58 -0400, Ken Wright wrote: > > On 2022-10-21 19:45, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > The problem with fixing things at the source level is that unless > it's > a security bug, it often takes a while to filter through to

Re: [Evolution] Oh for heavens sake ....

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 10:52 +0200, Philippe Lefèvre wrote: > Yes, this "Social Networks" orientation with these likes, badges and > other school gadgets is really appalling even though today's "majors" > (Facebook, Apple etc ...) are having a field day capturing kids (... > and big kids). > > An

Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when trying to compose email

> > Replying to myself: I Googled how to install the most recent Flatpak, > and it appears to be working properly now. Thanks, Pete, for pointing > me in the right direction! > Flatpak Evo versions have got much better recently, but you still need to realise that they run in their own

Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when trying to compose email

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 19:58 -0400, Ken Wright wrote: > On 2022-10-21 19:45, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > I just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.10 and Evolution 3.46.0-2, and all of a > > > sudden I can't compose, send, or reply without Evo crashing. There's > > > obviously something wrong in the

Re: [Evolution] Oh for heavens sake ....

Yes, this "Social Networks" orientation with these likes, badges and other school gadgets is really appalling even though today's "majors" (Facebook, Apple etc ...) are having a field day capturing kids (... and big kids). An option in one's own personal Evolution profile to remove this