On 31 Aug 2025, at 00:31, Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:
I run a public museum; our team uses (MM3-based) mailing lists for collaboration and coordination. It works well, though I've found that everyone under the age of about 40 says "Hey we should do this on Discord!" ...to which I flatly reply "NO." (it is good to be the boss)
Hey Dave, thanks a lot for the response.
Glad you are there to guide the way away from Discord!
Do you host and manage MM3 yourself or do you buy the service? If so, do you mind sharing the name of the service? I’m looking for service providers to avoid hosting and managing ourselves.
Do you have a set of rules to help make communication in your mailing lists more effective (tags/mentions/other)? For now, I have found that the kernel mailing list has a good etiquette guide ^1.
But the fact remains that it works very well, and it's very good (for our use case) to have the history.
100% agree; all these services which use databases (discord, m teams, slack, discourse etc.) have proven to have very short lives.
Rodrigo