curious: why use own hosting rather than github?

[Erazem Kokot]

> Just a few days ago I had to register at this mailing list to respond
> to an older thread. Does anyone how you accomplish that?
> I searched a bit if I could get mailman to send me a thread again,
> didn't find an option. Figured I can view-source the web-archive to
> find the correct header so it becomes recognized as a response.
> Tried to do this on the web-UI of my mail provider (which is a
> throwaway account, I don't want to end up with my own domain in search
> results for eternity), but my mail ended up as a new thread
> nevertheless.
> After this experience, I clearly can not see how mailman is easier to
> use. This is a very basic feature, mailman is out for ages and still
> no one meant to implement/document such a basic functionality.
> There are a lot of other issues regarding mailing lists, which I don't
> mean to discuss, as they've either being mentioned or discussed in
> other places thoroughly over the past years.
>
> I don't say "go use GitHub", but I truly disgrace this elitist stance
> of *mailing list or nothing*. I'm a "new contributor" and it took me
> more than 30 Minutes just to ask when there is going to be an upcoming
> release. I guess it boils down to what the goal of a project is and
> who you want to collaborate with, but the more artificial entry
> barriers you create, the more you'll end up with the exact opposite of
> a diverse contributor crowd.

I can't comment on how to respond to an old mailing list since I haven't
tried that yet, but asking about a new project release should have been
as simple as either entering your email on the website or sending an
email to password-store+subscribe at lists.zx2c4.com (the +(un)subscribe part
should work for most mailing lists) and then sending an email with the
question to the password-store at ... email.