GNOME drops mailing lists end of this month

[Bret Busby]

On 21/10/22 22:07, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 21/10/2022 14:28, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> while user's off all distros are affected, it's probably the worst for
>> users of distros that default to the GNOME desktop environment.
>>
>> Yesterday the Evolution users get informed:
>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/msg00128.html
> 
> If I understand this right, discussions until now distributed by email 
> will in future not be distributed by email, but by a non-mail protocol 
> and application.
> 
> If this is true, it implies that the Mailman application is dead in the 
> water, as it will cease being supported.
> 

My understanding from
https://list.org/
https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/introduction.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mailman
is that Mailman is not part of gnome, and, is independent of gnome, and, 
unrelated to gnome, and, that gnome has been only a user of Mailman, 
that has chosen to stop using Mailman, thence, the decision by gnome, to 
stop using Mailman, has (or, should have) no effect on the continuing 
development of Mailman, and, is simply further implementation of the 
policy of the gnomes, of "Up yours" to users, as shown when they imposed 
gnome3 to replace gnome2.

If anyone does not like Mailman, mailing lists can be set up and hosted 
at groups.io, which is where a number of mailing lists have been 
created, to replace mailing lists that have been withdrawn by 
institutions providing mailing lists, using Mailman or otherwise.

When a special interest entity that provided mailing lists, was taken 
over by a large, profit-oriented company, that shut down the about 
57,000 mailing lists run by the special interest entity, many of the 
mailing list administrators started replacement mailing lists at groups.io .

In the absence of (and, withdrawal of) support mailing lists for the 
ex-Mozilla products of Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, users 
support mailing lists for them, are available to "provide help to those 
who ask", at groups.io .

Incidentally, I found of the ending of the gnomes' use of Mailman, vis 
the Ekiga (a gnome product) mailing list, where the head gnome advised 
that the Ekiga mailing list was being shut down, and Ekiga was 
transferring to Disgust.

So, the gnomes are ending what little support they have left for users, 
by ending their use of mailing lists, in the full and final 
implementation of the "Up yours" policy toward users.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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