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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by syntheticnature on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:07AM (#28551979)
The problem with mailing lists is that anti-spam efforts, both on technical and policy fronts, have provided many blockages to their successful use. Not to mention that a lot of hosting providers are totally clueless as to the existence of discussion mailing lists.

Source: I help run some discussion mailing lists.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by inetknght on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:12PM (#28554417)
> The problem with mailing lists is that anti-spam efforts, both on technical and policy fronts, have provided many blockages to their successful use.

The real problem with mailing lists are businesses who have a vested interest in permitting spam to be delivered to users' inboxes.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by syntheticnature on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:58PM (#28556674)
Are you saying that voluntarily joined e-lists that reflect posts from each member to all members, as a means of discussion, are spam?
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