[vtkusers] Idea: move from mailing lists to Discourse

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:22:03 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit said:

>I know ITK community have moved on to discourse
>(https://discourse.itk.org/) and from what I've heard, the experience
>has been great. Is it time for VTK mailing lists to move to
>Discourse as well?
>
>What are people's feelings about it?

Ugh.  ITK and HDF5 made this switch, and I've found it *much* worse.  Perhaps it's great as a web forum, but the mailing list mode is a subpar experience.  I made a list a while ago related to an ITK discussion:

- it changes the 'from' address, making off-list replies impossible
- replying to the 'from' address bounces, making 'reply all' broken
- there's no 'List-Post' header, so it's hard to start new threads
- it sends html email
- the text-only part of the email renders quotations poorly
- quoted text in replies get removed, making inline replies impossible/broken
- it does something weird with emoji characters, changing them to strings like ":ok_hand:"
- it discards email signatures

Sean