On 29/06/2020 22:30, Andrey Semashev wrote:
Using corporate email for mailing lists is probably not the best idea, unless you're participating on behalf of the company. However, signatures are configurable and removable when posting a message. I admit, this may be less convenient if you have to remove the signature before posting.
Actually, corporate signatures aren't always removable. Sometimes they're added by the mail server rather than the mail client.
4) Easy to see from a high level what all the topics of discussion are. At the moment there's a boost users list, a boost developers list. Think there's one for Spirit. Is there one for UBLAS too? Not sure what others.
I believe, the suggestion was to have multiple forums, in which case you will have multiple lists of posts as well.
If you mean grouping messages in threads then every decent email client has that capability.
Speaking as one of the anachronistic old engineers, I prefer using newsgroups (via gmane, creaky as it may be) over forums over mailing lists, in that order. Another group I frequently participated in recently retired a "real" newsgroup server and switched over to a mailing list, and I ended up not participating any further until after it was mirrored to gmane. (And I'm currently reading this list via gmane as well.) This isn't really any sort of philosophical issue; I just tend to forget that web forums exist, so don't check them as often, whereas both email and newsgroups are more in-your-face -- and I personally find the UX of newsgroups to be preferable. (Some people may regard "less in-your-face" as a feature, but I find it means more messages build up between checks which makes it take longer to catch up, increasing the likelihood of putting it off until you have "more time" and then quickly becoming unmanageable. Maybe that's just me.) But any change, no matter which direction, is likely to dislodge some people -- it's more a question of whether there'd be enough new people attracted to warrant it. (This happens with any kind of community.)