[nmjenkins]

You should check out Topicbox: https://www.topicbox.com (disclosure: I worked on it). It's really good hosted mailing lists from the team at Fastmail. My one line description is "Topicbox is to Mailman what Slack is to IRC".

[crossroadsguy]

What are my options if I want — what mailman does but:

- email address of any user never disclosed to any other user

- name/username shown should always be predefined — not read from mail/replied received

- easy user management — add/remove/disable/ban/flag-and-put-on-hold etc

— communication not publicly available or indexed

- is not a forum at all — can be read on the web, but can’t be replied from anywhere other than an email client

— way to reply to specific users without knowing their email

- users can stop all or some users to reach out directly to them

- other mailman features

Good to have features:

— enable things like some sort of “slow mode” either for some users or group wide

[b112]

So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?

[Aeolun]

Did you confuse Slack with Teams?

[ceejayoz]

Is this an actual evaluation of Topicbox, or just an uncharitable dunk?

[jsjohnst]

I believe it was a reply to GP’s analogy of Slack vs IRC.

[b112]

Yes, have not used topicbox, just hate slack. And slackers. And even slacks.