Mailing list usability

[Max Kriegleder <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am an infrequent user of the mailing list, where I sometimes post 
issues and even more rarely pull request. Hence, I would rather not 
subscribe to the list because of spam (no pun intended!). However, I 
find it quite difficult to use the mailing list for my purposes without 
subscribing.

Lately, some of my messages apparently got lost. Also, I cannot answer 
to specific messages on 
https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@nuttx.apache.org/ as the 'Reply via 
email to' button doesn't work in my browser (Firefox). I have tried 
http://mail-archives.apache.org, which doesn't have a search and reply 
functionality, and 
https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@nuttx.apache.org, which seems 
like the best alternative with search and reply functionality, but it 
doesn't seem to be in sync with the mailing list (or takes longer to do 
that).

Are there other alternatives for my use case or do I really need to 
subscribe to the mailing list?

Thanks!
Max

Re: Mailing list usability

[Brennan Ashton <ba...@brennanashton.com>]

Max,
Sorry you are having trouble, I agree mailing lists are hard to use without
subscribing and I think you found what would have been my suggestions for
accessing the archives. I included you directly in this response so
hopefully you will get it.

If you have "issues" that you want to discuss such as the one you posted
about with the sm32f4discovery board feel free to open an actual GitHub
issue and we can try to resolve it there. We try to avoid too many of the
"how do I" kind of questions there, but if they are posted usually they
will still get a response just the audience may be smaller.

I hope that helps!

--Brennan


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 3:45 PM Max Kriegleder <ma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am an infrequent user of the mailing list, where I sometimes post
> issues and even more rarely pull request. Hence, I would rather not
> subscribe to the list because of spam (no pun intended!). However, I
> find it quite difficult to use the mailing list for my purposes without
> subscribing.
>
> Lately, some of my messages apparently got lost. Also, I cannot answer
> to specific messages on
> https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@nuttx.apache.org/ as the 'Reply via
> email to' button doesn't work in my browser (Firefox). I have tried
> http://mail-archives.apache.org, which doesn't have a search and reply
> functionality, and
> https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@nuttx.apache.org, which seems
> like the best alternative with search and reply functionality, but it
> doesn't seem to be in sync with the mailing list (or takes longer to do
> that).
>
> Are there other alternatives for my use case or do I really need to
> subscribe to the mailing list?
>
> Thanks!
> Max
>
>

Re: Mailing list usability

["Matias N." <ma...@imap.cc>]

Most mailing list managers allow turning off sending emails (and also support digest mode).
If Apache uses mailman this should be possible to set via administrative interface once you
subscribe.

Best,
Matias

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, at 06:34, Max Kriegleder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am an infrequent user of the mailing list, where I sometimes post 
> issues and even more rarely pull request. Hence, I would rather not 
> subscribe to the list because of spam (no pun intended!). However, I 
> find it quite difficult to use the mailing list for my purposes without 
> subscribing.
> 
> Lately, some of my messages apparently got lost. Also, I cannot answer 
> to specific messages on 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@nuttx.apache.org/ as the 'Reply via 
> email to' button doesn't work in my browser (Firefox). I have tried 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org, which doesn't have a search and reply 
> functionality, and 
> https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@nuttx.apache.org, which seems 
> like the best alternative with search and reply functionality, but it 
> doesn't seem to be in sync with the mailing list (or takes longer to do 
> that).
> 
> Are there other alternatives for my use case or do I really need to 
> subscribe to the mailing list?
> 
> Thanks!
> Max
> 
>