(low-frequency) mailing lists | suggestions & summary of prior thread

[Nate Graham]

I get emails when people reply to my messages directly. And if you want 
replies to threads you've posted in, you can subscribe to the thread 
manually.

All of these behaviors are also user-configurable, of course--just like 
any sane forum.

Nate



On 5/24/23 16:18, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimecres, 24 de maig de 2023, a les 9:35:38 (CEST), Joseph P. De Veaugh-
> Geiss va escriure:
>> On 5/24/23 00:03, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> El dimarts, 23 de maig de 2023, a les 14:10:37 (CEST), Joseph P. De
>>> Veaugh-
>>>
>>>> Beyond typical forum functionality, Discourse integrates well with email
>>>> and RSS. Something to consider for low-frequency mailing list groups:
>>>> there may be projects and communities that benefit by officially moving
>>>> communication to Discourse. Although I have no data to back up the
>>>> claim, I suspect having users interact on a more active platform could
>>>> generally increase engagement within KDE.
>>>>
>>>> A nice feature of Discourse is: for mailing list subscribers who wish to
>>>> continue receiving posts in their mail clients,
>>>
>>> Is it really? I remember once that i visited, commented on a post and
>>> never
>>> ever got emails when people answered me on that post. I am not a crazy
>>> person that plans visiting discuss.kde.org every 5 minutes just in case
>>> someone has answered me, the site must send me an email and in my 1 time
>>> experience it failed to do so.
>>
>> Is this with "mailing list mode" enabled?
> 
> No, because it from your description it doesn't seem what i want at all.
> 
>    I do not want to get emails for all the posts sent to all the places in the
> site.
>    I do not want to answer to things via email
> 
> I just want a sensible notification policy in which when someone answers to
> something i posted I get a notification by email.
> 
>>
>> I think what you are describing is related to general email settings for
>> notifications. This can be found under Profile > Preferences > Emails.
>> This looks like the relevant place: "Email me when I am quoted, replied
>> to, my @username is mentioned, or when there is new activity in my
>> watched categories, tags or topics." Perhaps check your settings there?
>>
>> Note there may also be relevant settings under Profile > Preferences >
>> Tracking for "tracking" and "watching", word choices which do not make
>> the distinction clear, in my opinion. Right now I am not well-informed
>> about the options here.
> 
> It is broken, it seems watching is more intense than tracking (which my non
> English brain disagrees with) and watching is what i want. It also seems
> broken in which you have to set it tracking and then to watching again for it
> to actually work? (according to some random forum posts)
> 
> So what i want is apparently "When I post in a topic, set that topic to
> Watching"
> 
> Let's see if i ever post to discuss.k.o again it works as promised.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Albert
> 
>>
>> However, I am testing "mailing list mode" and I receive dozens of emails
>> a day for the categories I did not mute (see info below). I have not
>> tested the reply by email function yet, though.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Joseph
>>
>>>> it is possible to follow
>>>> discussions via RSS or by enable mailing list mode in Discourse. It
>>>> takes some setting up; see below for more.
>>>>
>>>> Info about using Discourse with email and RSS:
>>>>      * Users can enable "Mailing list mode", which allows one to receive
>>>>
>>>> and respond to posts via email (i.e., just like a mailing list). By
>>>> default, users receive posts to /all/ categories -- limiting posts to
>>>> specific categories requires manually "muting" the other categories. See
>>>>
>>>> the community wiki for more detail, including how to mute categories:
>>>>        https://community.kde.org/KDE.org/KDE_Forums#Mailing_List_Mode
>>>>      
>>>>      * Alternatively, one can follow specific categories, tags, etc. as an
>>>>
>>>> RSS feed. Again, see the community wiki for details:
>>>>        https://community.kde.org/KDE.org/KDE_Forums#Following_RSS_Feeds
> 
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