Someone on Discord has mentioned https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Imports_Mailing_List_Migration and the voting there.
This forum can be used in mailing list mode (I use it that way). Is it planned to allow new “imports” threads to be started by email?
The challenge might be that (as I understand it**) the ability to create new threads by email is forum-dependent, and the proposal seems to be to use an import tag in whatever other forum is most appropriate, and not all of those may have the ability to create threads by email enabled.
If new import discussions could be created by email, I suspect that many of the reasons for opposing a move would go away.
One of the challenges that new users face with mailing lists is that they may be unfamiliar with how they work (sign-up, etc.)… Has anyone end-to-end tested the “proposed new procedure” to see how easy it is to post as a new user from an email client?
Edit: See discussion of “new threads by email” here.
** new threads by email was discussed a few months ago, but I don’t know what the current state is, or how usable it is as a new user.