Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Mar 22 14:15:52 UTC 2021


On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 08:05 -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Usually efforts like this suck, but whatever WISPA did this year with
> the migration from a mailman system to an integrated forum\mailing
> list solution seems to work really well. It's not exactly like
> mailman, but it works very well.

Discourse?!? It's a great "forum" by some accounts, but it is one of
the most seriously crappy mailing lists I have ever been subjected to.

Without a word of exaggeration, it operates as if the developers had
never seen a working mailing list. Quoting, signatures, sender
addresses, reply-to addresses, HTTP vs text, archiving, threading,
configuration - you name it, they screwed it up. Not in minor ways
either. 

I hope all the above is wrong. My experience is about a year old. Maybe
the software has been improved.

At very least, make sure that your beta testers include a proper
proportion of email-only users, and then listen to them.

Regards, K.

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