[LightDM] Moving mailing list from freedesktop.org infrastructure

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:28:18 +1000 Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:

> 
> > Google Groups are still a thing. Seems like it might be a good middle ground between a modern forum and a mailing list.
> 
> +1 for Google Groups.  While you need a Google account to create a new
> group, you don't need an account to join a group, just an e-mail
> address.  It then works like any other mailing list.  You can typically
> subscribe by e-mailing [groupname]+subscribe at googlegroups.com (or of
> course through the web interface with your Google account).

groups.io is even better.  And is not part of "Big Brother Google".

> 
> If you DO have a Google account, you can choose which address you want
> messages sent to (or to get no e-mails at all if you only want to use
> the web interface), and adding a non-GMail address to your Google
> account is an option as well.
> 
> You do need a Google account to post via the web, but that's no
> different to any other web-based forum.
> 
> You can get RSS and Atom feeds of new posts, by going into the group's
> web interface, clicking on 'About' and choosing your preferred feed
> (there are different feeds depending on how many messages you want to
> get at a time).  The RSS URL typically looks like this:
> 
>   https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/[groupname]/msgs/rss.xml?num=15
> 
> You can choose whether you want a feed of messages or topics (new
> threads) which is also nice.
> 
> Of course you can't reply to messages via RSS so you'll need a Google
> account to reply via the web if the RSS feed is your only method of
> accessing the list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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