Alexander Bokovoy

@hyc@mastodon.social IIRC, there were two problems: spammers flooded community mailing lists to the point that it was almost impossible to handle that and the second issue was migration of the Red Hat's malining lists off mailman to other platform. We ended up migrating mailing lists to Fedora's mailman. To date, freeipa-users@ is in top three most active mailing lists in Fedora community. Loss of original archives was a sad history.

@Tzardan@fosstodon.org this comes from a person at a company who laid off people from their Open Source Programs Office, including those who stewarded Open Source communities for several decades. Let me point to a very good summary: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/27/google_open_source/

@hyc@mastodon.social the archives were available until recently...