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> P.S. is this the "old" mailing list? If so, what is the new one?<br>
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This is the new one.<br>
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> Have you considered moving to a more modern Q&A platform like StackExchange (even use an existing one like ServerFault)?<br>
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See similar discussion 9+ years ago:<br>
<a href="https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/217" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/217</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just want to throw-in my 2 cents concerning this suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>NO</div><div><br></div><div>Why? Because mailing lists are publicly available, often times mirrored by other mailing list archives, you have them in your mailbox for personal archive etc. <br></div><div>So you can find something again.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a matter of time until privately owned platforms (such as StackExchange) might suddenly start charging to read answers (Experts Exchange). Or the service might be attacked and is down right then when you need it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>A public discussion board, such as the one suggested in ticket 217, is generally a better idea, but I've seen exactly this happening with the monitoring plugins mailing list.</div><div>Everything was moved from mailing list to a discussion board (not sure which one) and because people have abandoned the project and problems with DSGVO/GDPR and technical security vulnerabilities of the discussion board started to arise, the discussion board was shut down. Including all archives. Everything is gone. And there was a lot of helpful information there which would still apply today. Just visit <a href="https://monitoring-portal.org/">https://monitoring-portal.org/</a> to see for yourself.</div><div><br></div><div>A mailing list might be old-style, I agree. But it's the safest way to keep the shared information alive.</div></div></div>