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

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:55 PM, tot-to <not...@to...> wrote:

> 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.
>

Another alternative is to use GitHub's "issues" for conversations. Here's a
reasonably active project in which they do this:
https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

I believe you can subscribe to specific topics instead of receive
everything. You can respond to a thread by replying, much like the mailing
list, or  you can log in and use the GUI. Unfortunately, you do need to
have a GitHub account, but I believe the requirements are less stringent.

Probably still closed source....

Regards,
Jeff

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