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Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#12
Please have the administrator of CCL.net reach out to me at the email in my profile. I can provide compute and bandwidth at no cost to help offset some of the operational burden. Because it would operate from my network under address space I control, I can help with resolving deliverability issues.

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#14

You should check out Topicbox: https://www.topicbox.com (disclosure: I worked on it). It's really good hosted mailing lists from the team at Fastmail. My one line description is "Topicbox is to Mailman what Slack is to IRC".

What are my options if I want — what mailman does but:

- email address of any user never disclosed to any other user

- name/username shown should always be predefined — not read from mail/replied received

- easy user management — add/remove/disable/ban/flag-and-put-on-hold etc

— communication not publicly available or indexed

- is not a forum at all — can be read on the web, but can’t be replied from anywhere other than an email client

— way to reply to specific users without knowing their email

- users can stop all or some users to reach out directly to them

- other mailman features

Good to have features:

— enable things like some sort of “slow mode” either for some users or group wide

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#15

You should check out Topicbox: https://www.topicbox.com (disclosure: I worked on it). It's really good hosted mailing lists from the team at Fastmail. My one line description is "Topicbox is to Mailman what Slack is to IRC".

So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#16
post #15

You should check out Topicbox: https://www.topicbox.com (disclosure: I worked on it). It's really good hosted mailing lists from the team at Fastmail. My one line description is "Topicbox is to Mailman what Slack is to IRC".

So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?

Is this an actual evaluation of Topicbox, or just an uncharitable dunk?

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#17
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?

Is this an actual evaluation of Topicbox, or just an uncharitable dunk?

I believe it was a reply to GP’s analogy of Slack vs IRC.

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#19
post #15

You should check out Topicbox: https://www.topicbox.com (disclosure: I worked on it). It's really good hosted mailing lists from the team at Fastmail. My one line description is "Topicbox is to Mailman what Slack is to IRC".

So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?

Did you confuse Slack with Teams?

Re: Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this an actual evaluation of Topicbox, or just an uncharitable dunk?

I believe it was a reply to GP’s analogy of Slack vs IRC.

Yes, have not used topicbox, just hate slack. And slackers. And even slacks.
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