[aoloe]

Hi Zebra, I might be getting old, but your request seems very strange to me.

I have subscribed many mailing lists during my life and there is no single one that I could define in any way as "commercial".

On the other side, Gitter is a commercial platform that depends on one of two other commercial platforms (Twitter or Github).

I wonder if I should revide my opinion on the usage of Gitter for free software projects...

[zebra9978]

yes - you should revise your opinion. Thirtybees mailing list is a Mailchimp signup... not usenet. Please double check.

slack or gitter is atleast a two way street.