Re: New lua-l hosted at Google Groups

[Paul Eipper <lkraider@...>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 12:17 AM Mouse <mouse@rodents-montreal.org> wrote:

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>> No, I will not be participating in any Google-hosted list.
> Perhaps a Discord server in lieu of Google groups?

> Or everyone interested in Lua can join fosstodon.org (or another
> Mastodon server) and tag posts with #lua that others can follow.

Since it was my mail you replied to, and, again, speaking purely
personally:

Discord?  No.  A closed-source implementation of a closed protocol is a
total nonstarter for me.  If I didn't personally build it from source,
I don't run it.

Mastodon?  Well, at least it's open-source (or is said to be; I haven't
personally verified it).  But, still, no.  I'm interested in a mailing
list.  I have zero-to-negative interest in anything Web (correct me if
I'm wrong; my impression is that Mastodon is all layered atop the Web).

Everybody seems to have strong opinions, but I don't think many offered to do the work to keep the list going. So there's that also.

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Paul Eipper