Mailing List Future

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Greetings all,

Over the past few years, the use of the Asterisk mailing lists has diminished, with far more conversation happening on the Asterisk community forums[1]. The state of email, to ensure reliable delivery, has also gotten more complicated – emails get caught by spam filters, etc.. To continue the mailing lists would require a huge time and resource investment, for minimal use.

To that end, we’ve decided to discontinue the mailing lists effective February 1st, 2024.

This means the following:

1. Sending and receiving mailing list emails will no longer be possible.
2. The list archives, however, will remain available.

We recommend those who have not already done so migrate to the Asterisk Community forums[1]. You can choose to receive emails for posts if you wish, or purely use the web interface. You’re also able to privately message other individuals if you wish. Scoped categories also exist for more specific help.

Cheers,

[1] https://community.asterisk.org/

7 thoughts on - Mailing List Future

  • Frank Vanoni wrote:
    Interesting that they will continue to send e-mails when postings to the (UGH) forum happen though.

    John Novack

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    Dog is my Co-Pilot

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  • The mailing list will not receive emails from the forums. What I was referring to is that Discourse does provide the ability to receive emails for posts or threads you’re interested in, and you are able to respond over email to them as well.

  • I use this forum via its email interface, and I agree that it works. The biggest disadvantage I experience is that although you can _reply_ to a thread via email, you cannot create a new one; you have to use the web forum interface for that.

    I don’t know whether the forum software used here could be modified to allow that – I raised the same point on the FreeSwitch forum and an admin quite happily turned it on. Maybe that could be investigated here?

    Antony.

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    René Descartes walks in to a bar. The barman asks him “Do you want a drink?”
    Descartes says “I think not,” and disappears.

    Please reply to the list;
    please *don’t* CC me.

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  • It actually is turned on for some of the categories, but as it’s a hosted instance I am limited in the available plugins and modification that can be done to make this more clear. We can add documentation on the docs site for it, and see if we can do something else.

  • To follow-up on this, I reached out to Discourse and they gave a suggestion on how to make it more evident (though not as nice as I would hope). I’ll be experimenting with it in January, that is: making it more clearer/evident that email exists.

  • Just a reminder all regarding the time frame on the asterisk-users list, and the move to Discourse[1]. In regards to starting threads using email I
    have gone through and set up email addresses for the various categories. The hard part is communicating this, and the options Discourse gave weren’t exactly the best. For the first attempt I have done the following:

    1. Added a menu item at the top for “Starting Threads Over Email”
    2. Created a forum post[2] which documents the categories and their email address

    If there’s any other suggestions on it feel free to raise it.

    Cheers,

    [1] https://community.asterisk.org/
    [2] https://community.asterisk.org/t/starting-threads-over-email/100275