So the solution is adding quirky behaviour to Discourse as well, rather than mirroring how it’d work with mailing lists?
I think you can tell I’m biased too!
I think this is preserving the mailing list pedigree, but where a group is akin to a mailing list and a user is akin to a person’s email address.
So a PM to reps-council
and @leo
should behave as an email to reps-council@lists.mo.co
and lmcardle@mo.co
would. You can reply to all to continue the thread (and, as a parallel, PM), or reply to a specific person to start a new thread (and PM) with them.
Well, sortof - I would see removing recipients working like if someone had clicked the “New Message” button in a PM, and removed the recipients in the composer window which pops up:
Indeed, I don’t think that the Basecamp-style solution is bad, I just favour one with more mailing list and email parity. Ultimately I’d be happy with either, though, so I can move forward with adding group names to group PMs. I think at this point someone just needs to make a decision - what does the @team think?
I can’t quite commit to any development time for this yet, but it’s highly likely that I will be able to work on it.