Important Announcement: All NGINX mailman mailing lists are retiring on September 30

[Ralph Seichter]

* Sergey Budnevich:

> The main reason for decommissioning is the lack of activity in the
> mailing list — there are months with announcement emails only.

In other words, the ML servers are not overburdened and could keep
chugging along as they have been doing. ;-)

> GitHub is not a replacement for a mailing list as a place for
> questions - it is mainly for information about new releases, i.e., an
> announcements replacement.

Well, setting up a custom GitHub watch option for releases could mimic
the ML announcements, partially.

> community.nginx.org is intended as the mailing list replacement, as
> Ian correctly mentioned. Also it is possible to use RSS feeds for both
> GitHub and the forum.

People might consider me old-fashioned (and I am of an advanced age),
but my work is centered around the use of email as much as possible. It
is usually the most effective and convenient means of managing/tracking
communication. Importantly, email also is available to me offline once
received. Forums can't provide that. Mail is delivered to me (pushed),
while I need to actively pull information from forums. And while I am
aware of forum digests and feeds, they don't work well for me.

-Ralph