[Cuis-dev] GitHub Discussions

[Martin McClure]

Hi all,

I just caught up on the thread about communications, so here's a reply 
to several things that were said:

* Yes, I am the admin of Commonhouse.net, the server that hosts the Cuis 
list. I don't administer the list itself, Juan does that. Thanks for 
mentioning me, Hernan -- I'm glad to provide service to the Smalltalk 
community. It is not entirely free, the server keeps running through 
donations, but the suggested donation amounts are very low because our 
costs are low and the labor is free. For those that are curious, 
Commonhouse has been running since 1998. We've out-lived most other free 
or low-cost services, and we aren't going away anytime soon.

* We don't put disk quotas on our users. Some use a little, some use a 
lot. Cuis could use more with no complaint from me.

* I don't know how other people's phones' email clients work, but my 
phone does not download the entire email if it has image attachments. It 
shows me the text and a button to download the image if I want to see it.

* Screen shots are generally pretty small. PNGs compress well, and you 
can get a lot in less than 1MB. That used to be a lot, but in today's 
world that is pretty small.

* Though it's a decision for the Cuis community to make, I personally am 
in favor of mailing lists over web forums and am in favor of allowing 
screen shots to be emailed through the list as part of the messages, 
because sometimes a screen shot or two is the best way to communicate 
something. Probably not videos, though. :-)

Regards,
-Martin



On 5/20/22 12:13, Adrian Sampaleanu via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> With the recent thread on the use of this mailing list as a 
> communication medium,  I was wondering if GitHub Discussions had been 
> considered, in order to take advantage of the benefits it brings, 
> namely threaded discussion, easy media inclusion in posts, 
> searchability, conversion to GitHub issues, free hosting, etc. The 
> venue can support email posting, as described here, 
> https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows/discussions/399
>
> Seeing that the Cuis project already uses GitHub to a great degree, 
> IMO it would make sense to use the discussions part of the service as 
> well.
>
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