For those of you who prefer the mailing list workflow, you can easily participate in this forum by email exclusively.
Go to: Profile > Preferences on your account and scroll down to “Email”, where you can choose how often you want to receive emails, which includes the option: “an email for every new post.” You may even mute the topics and categories you are not interested in so you won’t receive email for those types of messages.
This mailing list interface provides the ability to reply to topics and also create new topics by email. To reply to topics, just reply to the email.