Re: Mailing List Future

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On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:54=E2=80=AFAM Joshua C. Colp <[email protected]> w=
rote:

> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:52=E2=80=AFAM Antony Stone <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 04 December 2023 at 13:39:51, Joshua C. Colp wrote:
>>
>> > The mailing list will not receive emails from the forums. What I was
>> > referring to is that Discourse does provide the ability to receive
>> emails
>> > for posts or threads you're interested in, and you are able to respond
>> over
>> > email to them as well.
>>
>> I use this forum via its email interface, and I agree that it works.  Th=
e
>> biggest disadvantage I experience is that although you can _reply_ to a
>> thread
>> via email, you cannot create a new one; you have to use the web forum
>> interface for that.
>>
>> I don't know whether the forum software used here could be modified to
>> allow
>> that - I raised the same point on the FreeSwitch forum and an admin quit=
e
>> happily turned it on.  Maybe that could be investigated here?
>>
>
> It actually is turned on for some of the categories, but as it's a hosted
> instance I am limited in the available plugins and modification that can =
be
> done to make this more clear. We can add documentation on the docs site f=
or
> it, and see if we can do something else.
>

To follow-up on this, I reached out to Discourse and they gave a suggestion
on how to make it more evident (though not as nice as I would hope). I'll
be experimenting with it in January, that is: making it more
clearer/evident that email exists.

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Joshua C. Colp
Asterisk Project Lead
Sangoma Technologies
Check us out at www.sangoma.com and www.asterisk.org

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:54=E2=80=AFAM Jo=
shua C. Colp &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>=
&gt; wrote:<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_=
quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,=
204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Dec 4, 202=
3 at 8:52=E2=80=AFAM Antony Stone &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:Antony.Stone@asteri=
sk.open.source.it" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</=
a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmai=
l_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,20=
4,204);padding-left:1ex">On Monday 04 December 2023 at 13:39:51, Joshua C. =
Colp wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; The mailing list will not receive emails from the forums. What I was<b=
r>
&gt; referring to is that Discourse does provide the ability to receive ema=
ils<br>
&gt; for posts or threads you&#39;re interested in, and you are able to res=
pond over<br>
&gt; email to them as well.<br>
<br>
I use this forum via its email interface, and I agree that it works.=C2=A0 =
The <br>
biggest disadvantage I experience is that although you can _reply_ to a thr=
ead <br>
via email, you cannot create a new one; you have to use the web forum <br>
interface for that.<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t know whether the forum software used here could be modified to =
allow <br>
that - I raised the same point on the FreeSwitch forum and an admin quite <=
br>
happily turned it on.=C2=A0 Maybe that could be investigated here?<br></blo=
ckquote><div><br></div><div>It actually is turned on for some of the catego=
ries, but as it&#39;s a hosted instance I am limited in the available plugi=
ns and modification that can be done to make this more clear. We can add do=
cumentation on the docs site for it, and see if we can do something else.</=
div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To follow-up on this, I re=
ached out to Discourse and they gave a suggestion on how to make it more ev=
ident (though not as nice as I would hope). I&#39;ll be experimenting with =
it in January, that is: making it more clearer/evident that email exists.</=
div></div><div><br></div><span class=3D"gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><=
br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div di=
r=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color=3D"#07376=
3">Joshua C. Colp</font></div><div style=3D"font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">=
<font color=3D"#073763">Asterisk Project Lead</font></div><div style=3D"fon=
t-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color=3D"#073763">Sangoma Technologies</f=
ont></div><div style=3D"font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color=3D"#0737=
63">Check us out at <a href=3D"http://www.sangoma.com" target=3D"_blank">ww=
w.sangoma.com</a> and <a href=3D"http://www.asterisk.org" target=3D"_blank"=
>www.asterisk.org</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><=
/div></div></div></div>

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