Hello, triggering an email over the mailing list for each new forum post and allowing new mails to the mailing list only over from the forum is a good compromise. Ideally emails submitted to the mailing list shall be automatically mirrored to the forum and vice-versa, but this ideal scenario is maybe not realistic. I run myself mailing lists and I have to say this is really too much hard work to get it right (adjusting anti-spam software; rejecting at SMTP-level emails, which would be otherwise bounced my the mailing list manager (sender used wrong address); DKIM/DMARC, etc). So a hosted mailing list for freeswitch, instead of a self-hosted mailing list server could also be considered. However permitting emails from the forum to the currently installed mailing list shall not be that hard to get right and I think is a good compromise. Greetings Dilyan -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Armstead <brandon@cryy.com> Reply-To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list Date: 02/02/2023 03:51:19 PM +1 in agreement with Alex. On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com> wrote:
I do understand that maintaining a mailing list, and all the issues that come with it, is a thankless chore. I run several myself and can relate to the frustration.
However, from my perspective, it is by far the most effective way to engage the broadest swath of users, for reasons already outlined by others. Only a small, hardcore group of forum enthusiasts who particularly like that medium will participate in forums; average people won't bother to keep up with the forum because it requires work.
The net effect is that people only come to ask a specific question, the number of experts usefully answering questions is reduced, and that users don't stay broadly abreast of trends and project info which would otherwise smile out in some way from their inbox.
-- Alex
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