Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists hosted by Gnome.org

Thanks to everyone who has been trying to do something about this.  Its sad
the more ML's move to web forums, i've been on a few like that and its
never been the same, they lose a lot of good people.


On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:28 AM Ralf Mardorf via mc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it's worth to forward this [1] to other GNOME mailing lists.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> [1]
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists
> hosted by Gnome.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:19:21 -0400
>
> On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 11:01 -0400, dfc via evolution-list wrote:
> > What other existing mailing list software can be used if Mailman is
> > unavailable?
>
> Just to reiterate and clarify, there is no "Mailman is unavailable"
> situation.  Mailman has versions that support Python2 and Python3, and
> Python2 is still supported in many places (but maybe not in Gnome land).
> Gnome appears to be blaming python2 and Mailman, but it really seems
> that Gnome just really wants to give up email support in favor of
> support via web browser (with future ads, click tracking, data
> harvesting, etc?).
>
> I've offered to host, for Gnome, for free, everything they currently
> have at mail.gnome.org (all they would have to do is switch DNS for the
> subdomain mail.gnome.org to my systems and provide me with a copy of
> their current Mailman2 lists and archives).  I've been doing Mailman2
> mailinglists for 2 decades, and have tons of experience in this area.
> Sadly, no one from Gnome has contacted me to take me up on this offer.
>
> -Jim P.
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