Re: [Notion-general] Moving the mailinglists away from Sourceforge

[tot-to <not...@to...>]

Hi Ed,

You right, that it's not very convinient, that you need to subscribe to
all messages within the maillist and can't subscribe only to desired
topic(s).

But the requirement of Google account create much more trobles. One
needs not only to register, but also to set-up forwarding from Google
e-mail to their actual address. And in order to post a message, instead
of simply sending an e-mail, one needs to log-in.

In my case the main problem is the fact that I can't register an
account without entering a cell phone number, which I provide only to
very limited amount of people for use only in urgent cases. And I'll
not provide it for sure to the corporation well-known for the
surveillance. Also, I don't see any reason to have a connection
between the network identity and the real world identity.

Apart of everything else, mailman is a free software, and google groups
is proprietary.

-----Original Message-----
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 13:22:25 +0000
From: Ed Schwartz <edm...@cm...>
To: ani...@co..., tot-to <not...@to...>
Cc: notion-general <not...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Notion-general] Moving the mailinglists away from
Sourceforge


On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:35 AM Wojciech Aniszewski
<ani...@co...> wrote:

> It would be a sad move to migrate to Google, or any other login-requiring
> service.
>
>
I feel that subscribing to mailing lists only to ask a question is much
more burdensome than creating a Google account, and I often simply avoid
joining a traditional mailing list unless I want to receive its mail
anyway.

Google groups is nice (assuming you have a Google account, don't think
Google is the devil, etc.) because you can post messages and subscribe
to your thread only if desired.  It also has very good archive search.

I agree it's unfortunate that a Google account is required, though.

Ed