[Members] XSF Board Meeting Minutes 20170301

[Sam Whited]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Florian Schmaus <flo at geekplace.eu> wrote:
> - Be useable just like a Mailing List
> …
> only Discourse matches those requirements.

Discourse does not meet this requirement. You're trying to fit a forum
shaped peg into an email shaped hole. Discourse handles email better
than most forum software, but if we're going to continue to recommend
Discourse we might as well also consider phpBB or whatever everyone is
using these days.

—Sam