@lyncia oof, mailing lists are...actually kinda gnarly since every single message anyone sends to anyone else ends up in your inbox
like, imagine if every single message sent across an entire service was pinging you, and that's what mailing lists are like
you have to filter aggressively to even survive being in more than one at the same time if they are active
usenet is still kinda neat though! it's kinda like a low-fi reddit without voting