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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM Ralph Seichter <ralph at ml.seichter.de> wrote:
>
> [...]
> 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.

The web forum vs mailing list debate got so bad the IETF considered
publishing a document to explain why mailing lists are superior to web
forums. The thread started at "Fully functional email address" (June
2025), <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/mLuQzc9aYPz0NpaExJMK0ZbiFow/>.
The list was provided by Rich Kulawiec at
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/q6A_anL1u-Y9iXe-vboiOYamsl0/>.

Jeff