Why use mailing lists?
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Why use mailing lists?
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Re: Why use mailing lists?
#2Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”:
Please, inform us of an alternative which is:
• Non-proprietary
• Federated
• Archivable
• Accessible
• Not dependent on a specific company
— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038>
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#3Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Please inform me of an opensource way to run one that I can actually get configured properly.
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#4Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Please inform me of an opensource way to run one that I can actually get configured properly.
I’ve heard good things about https://mailinabox.email>.
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#5Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Please inform me of an opensource way to run one that I can actually get configured properly.
Same for self-hosted mail...
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#6Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Please inform me of an opensource way to run one that I can actually get configured properly.
Mailman 3 is acceptable, imho. It's been a few years since I worked with it, but I was able to design a reliable public instance of it (https://mailman.haskell.org) with a few days of effort, including the migration from mailman v2.
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#7Via http://www.mail-archive.com/nginx@nginx.org/msg25495.html.
Sadly, it's been announced yesterday that the nginx.org mailing lists are being shutdown by end of month (Sept 2025).
P.S. Probably one more reason to look into into the freenginx fork of nginx — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327 — their mailing lists are at http://freenginx.org/en/support.html.
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#8Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Newsgroups as in NNTP[1] fits those criteria, no?
Granted, federated bit is more tricky now. Back in the days many if not most ISPs ran a NNTP server. But the protocol supports it.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#9Like I recently wrote in response to someone here who was fascinated that mailing lists were “still a thing in 2025”: Please, inform us of an alternative which is: • Non-proprietary • Federated • Archivable • Accessible • Not dependent on a specific company — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972038 >
Discourse seems to fit the bill (although I'm not 100% sure about federation)
Re: Why use mailing lists?
#10Mailing list yes, RSS yes....
Old, boring, simple, works.
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