LightDM - Feb 2019 - Moving mailing list from freedesktop.org infrastructure

At Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:28:18 +1000 Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net>
wrote:
> 
> > Google Groups are still a thing. Seems like it might be a good middle
ground between a modern forum and a mailing list.
> 
> +1 for Google Groups.  While you need a Google account to create a new
> group, you don't need an account to join a group, just an e-mail
> address.  It then works like any other mailing list.  You can typically
> subscribe by e-mailing [groupname]+subscribe at googlegroups.com (or of
> course through the web interface with your Google account).
groups.io is even better.  And is not part of "Big Brother Google".
> 
> If you DO have a Google account, you can choose which address you want
> messages sent to (or to get no e-mails at all if you only want to use
> the web interface), and adding a non-GMail address to your Google
> account is an option as well.
> 
> You do need a Google account to post via the web, but that's no
> different to any other web-based forum.
> 
> You can get RSS and Atom feeds of new posts, by going into the group's
> web interface, clicking on 'About' and choosing your preferred feed
> (there are different feeds depending on how many messages you want to
> get at a time).  The RSS URL typically looks like this:
> 
>   https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/[groupname]/msgs/rss.xml?num=15
> 
> You can choose whether you want a feed of messages or topics (new
> threads) which is also nice.
> 
> Of course you can't reply to messages via RSS so you'll need a
Google
> account to reply via the web if the RSS feed is your only method of
> accessing the list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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> > > Google Groups are still a thing. Seems like it might be a good
middle ground between a modern forum and a mailing list.
> > 
> > +1 for Google Groups.
> 
> groups.io is even better.  And is not part of "Big Brother
Google".
If it's a public group then it doesn't really matter whether it's
hosted by "big brother" or not, since big brother will see it anyway
wherever it's located.

I had a look at groups.io and it does seem pretty good.  It looks like
you can't get an RSS feed of new topics/threads (only a feed of
individual messages) so Google Groups is a bit more flexible for RSS
users, but it does seem to work quite well in other respects.

Looks like you only need an account to use the web interface, which has
both threaded views and a straight list of messages.  Apparently you
can "mute" individual threads which could be useful on some lists,
although it doesn't look like this would affect the RSS feed as the URL
is a shared one and not user-specific (although I haven't joined a
group yet, maybe you get your own RSS URL once you join a group?)

It's certainly faster to access than Google's offering and it's a
bit
clearer about how to join the group and manage your subscription, so
I would be happy to use groups.io as well.  It does look like it has a
more enthusiastic development team behind it and is probably a better
fit for an open source project.

Cheers,
Adam.