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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by renegat0x0 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:51AM (#45393673)
Yesterday I seen someone claiming on Reddit that they stopped using mailing list in favour of using rss
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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by pasc1878 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @03:47AM (#45393906)
Yes that works to read them - and I do use that.

But if you want to write a message in reply or start a new conversation - RSS does not allow that. (In the cases that I use RSS - I will just copy to my mail app - it is more cumbersome than just replying in mail (or usenet via gmane) but this is not something I do often for those lists.

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