Re: Problems with the mailing list [was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Request for karma to vote on RFCs]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:33 AM Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com> wrote: > I have now been contacted by 2 people who tried multiple times to join this > mailing list and cannot. > > It took me 5 weeks for my signup to work. During that time I emailed the > different @php.net mailboxes related to infrastructure and/or the web and > received no response. Eventually I managed to sign up - once I created this > brand-new Gmail account. The signup form is unreliable. > > There are people wanting to take part in discussions who can't. > > It took me a very long time to get signed up to the mailing list as well, so I poked around on twitter back then to see if anyone could help me. I've tried several times over the timespan of at least a year and I never received a follow up after using the form. I'm not sure what changed, it just worked eventually. I'm also still receiving a bunch of messages from the mailing list in my spam folder (gmail), and there's not much I can do about it. I would love to see a system replacing the mailing list, one where we can reliably use things like markdown to properly quote and have code blocks and have at least semi-decent threaded discussions.