Re: “Discourse” as mailing list surrogate (Was: Gmail POP3 Issue)

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Le 2021-01-03 à 09 h 07, Albrecht Dreß a écrit :
> Am 02.01.21 17:16 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > PS This mailing list will likely be archived and closed in the near 
> > future[0], in favor of GNOME's Discourse instance, which is where 
> > discussion is being encouraged.
>
> I found a note 
> <https://discourse.gnome.org/t/interacting-with-discourse-via-email/46> 
> that Discourse could be used exclusively by email, instead of fighting 
> with a crowded and confusing web interface which pollutes my box with 
> cookies…  However, that description is somewhat unclear to me, so it 
> would be *really* great if you would place an explanation somewhere how 
> it can be used as a “real” Balsa mailing list replacement, i.e. 
> *without* the need to ever log in on that web site.
>
> Furthermore, that tool apparently always sends mixed mails with a HTML 
> part – any idea how I can switch that off, i.e. to receive text-only 
> messages?
>
> Thanks,
> Albrecht.
+1
Closing the mailing list is a really bad idea.

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André