Re: New lua-l hosted at Google Groups

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@...>]

On 15 Dec 2023, at 04:02, Sudipto Mallick <smallick.dev@gmail.com> wrote:

How about going to the opposite direction, like starting comp.lang.lua? Is USENET not an option anymore?

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

Talk about inappropriate timing.  You couldn’t make it up!

Being yet another person who has completely de-Googled themselves and does not have any sort of Google account, I’m very reluctant to start using Google for anything, including mailing lists.  Given the Usenet announcement above and the ongoing dropping of dozens of projects every year, I do wonder what the lifetime of the support for mailing lists will be.

Debian hosts mailing lists for other projects (https://lists.debian.org/other.html).  No account signup required to subscribe.

While dated, there are sites like SourceForge still around which offer mailing lists for free/open-source projects, and there are also alternatives like GNU Savannah.  Ubuntu Launchpad.   And others.

So there are quite a few viable options out there, and doubtless more if we were to look more extensively.

Kind regards,

Roger