# Discourse as a front end for existing ASF mailing lists

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-front-end-for-existing-asf-mailing-lists/23167>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年12 月 16 日 08:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-front-end-for-existing-asf-mailing-lists/23167 "2014-12-16T08:40:30Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2014 年12 月 16 日 09:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-front-end-for-existing-asf-mailing-lists/23167/2 "2014-12-16T09:16:30Z")

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This really depends on the culture of the mailing list. Discourse has fairly robust email support (for notifications, and if configured, for replies and email-in to start new topics), but it is still fundamentally web-centric in the way that it views the world. There will be clashes for people who are 100% email-centric.

Do you have support from the “powers that be” at said mailing lists to make such a change? Are they asking for such a change? We are very open to working with a partner on migrating mailing lists and further enhancing the mailing list support in Discourse, but it very much requires solid support from the **leadership** and a significant part of the **community**.

There’s a lot of friction involved in changes for groups!

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