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Mailing lists are terrible for a number of reasons.
You get to choose between "please spam my inbox" or "please send me a digest that I'll never read".
Reading conversations that take place between multiple people is horrible using inbox software, and the web interface to most mailing lists is a garbage view-one-post-at-a-time system.
If OSS developers had anything in their heads they'd set up a forum, or better yet host an instance of Shii
tchan