#26601 Freedom of Internet users

Hi,

I suspect that a FLOSS mailing list for a MUA doesn't fit the "only requirement" "that the list must be used for radical social change." OTOH fighting against nowadays Internet lifestyle by some of us is considered "a progressive, radical, or revolutionary nature", hence this request.

Evolution is a full featured FLOSS MUA, that can replace proprietary solutions for almost everything. The GNOME project informed the subscribers of the Evolution mailing list 11 days before it will be dropped. The list is discontinued at the end of this month, see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-October/msg00128.html .

The replacement is https://discourse.gnome.org/ , a forum with levels, badges, no real archive, sending mails with remote content. Our community is being threatened by decay, since we can't stand this approach, that is a copy of proprietary approaches, that aren't good for the freedom of Internet usage.

Apart from jokes related to the Vogons, we don't have fun, but instead we suffer from fear to loose another free community.

I wonder if you would allow us to migrate this list to lists.riseup.net . Almost all subscribers don't care about GNOME at all, we care about a good MUA and a lot of users aren't willing to follow GNOME's migration to Discourse.

AFAIK we are around 900 subscribers, used to send plain text emails without attachments.

Regards,
Ralf