Hi Jochen, I would like to once again stress the flow you can expect with Discourse. You sign up one time, and check a box that you want to receive emails. You will receive emails for every new post, and you can reply straight from email. In this it is exactly like a mailing list and would integrate with your workflow perfectly, while offering the option to use a feature rich forum for those who want it. Conversations can take place entirely within emails. Remember, this forum software was developed by people who are used to mailing lists, and they take this behavior into account.
Having the forum send something to the mailing list would just help promote the forum, it is not meant for users to be able to interact with. I think actually a weekly digest sent to the mailing list would be better. You can read more about Discourse's policies on free hosting for open source projects here: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/ -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Users-f329450.html
