> On 30 Nov 2022, at 01:03, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 06:38 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
>>> Well, so much for the notion that web forums are better at stopping
>>> spam than mailing lists...
>>> 
>>> I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now.
>> 
>> Reported it.
>> 
>> While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to
>> Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible
>> reasons for this included "better control of spam" and "Mailman depends
>> on Python 2", the latter being clearly nonsense as the Fedora lists run
>> on Mailman3 - which is why we have this HyperKitty crock in the first
>> place. (Note that GNOME hosting is provided by Red Hat, so go figure.)
>> 
>> The Evolution list has already been replaced, and as many of us have
>> decided that this is not a usable substitute we set up an alternative
>> list at:
>> 
>> https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users
>> 
>> If there is any danger of this nonsense happening to the Fedora lists,
>> I hope we get sufficient notice (GNOME originally gave us only 10 days
>> warning, though they later extended it) to allow for alternatives to be
>> discussed.
> 
> This email is so depressing. It saddens me to think there may not be a
> mailing list anymore.
> 
> I don't do social media. I won't start now. I refuse to be the product
> on a private platform.

Its not social media. Its discourse that is open source.

Python and fedora already have discourse servers up and working.

discuss.python.org and https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/

Personally I find them easy to use and better then email mainly because i can 
use markup to format code and other text.

Barry

> 
> Jeff
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