GNOME drops mailing lists end of this month

[Bret Busby]

On 23/10/22 20:13, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 00:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Unfortunately, as I have found today,, this also applies to the The
>> GIMP mailing list.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> yes, I'm surprised too.
> 
> A more typically GNOME app is midnight commander ;).
> 
> If you think I'm joking, take a look at
> 
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2022-October/msg00017.html
> 
> I moved this topic to the off-topic list,
> https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/itsbuntoff , so the GNOME
> mailing list discussion should continue there and/or for the next 7 days
> at the GNOME mailing lists. It's off-topic for this list. I only wanted
> to inform the users of this list, since GNOME is the default DE for
> Ubuntu and a lot of users might not have noticed that GNOME moves from
> mailing lists to a forum that suffers from gamification, "an allegedly
> populist idea that actually benefits corporate interests over those of
> ordinary people" [1].
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification#Criticism
> 

Without wanting to be a nuisance (any more than I may already be 
regarded as such), in going to the web page at
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo
to find what other lists will be impacted, I also found that this 
involves the mailing lists for gnumeric (the spreadsheet), and, much 
more troubling (although, I was not previously aware of a mailing list 
for it), Network Manager, that manages the network connections, applying 
to most Linux distributions, I believe.

Whilst the new, replacement gimp-users mailing list is progressively 
growing, I am wondering how many new mailing lists will be needed, to 
replace the many mailing lists being shut down by gnome.

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