> Le 14 juin 2018 à 22:23, Thomas <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Mailing list messages are easily filtered. >> I have one mailbox for each mailing list I subscribe to, and I read through >> the messages in list order, which makes it easy to mentally switch gears >> from one project to the next. > > Most people only have one mailbox. I presume you're referring to folders. > > >> If one project gets out of hand for a while, I can mark only that one >> mailbox as “read” without declaring email bankruptcy on all my other email. > > Forum software offers the very same functionality but that's not the direct > purpose of it. In a mailing list you're either "in" or "out". A forum > provides all possible options.
I routinely follow and participate in about 18 mailing-lists. They're all conveniently aggregated in folders, which is done automatically by rules applied by my IMAP mail server upon arrival. That's comfortable and I have all of it through a single user interface: my email reader. I can easily full-text search on a folder, some or all of them. With a decent email reader and a mailbox managed by a decent, standard compliant, IMAP server, these actions are effective (server-side filtering for instance). I can also set expiration rules to automatically purge older messages, depending on the folder. I can't even imagine myself finding the time and will to visit about 12 to 15 different URLs, user interfaces, to browse and read what might interest me. And then face as much different interfaces to reply conveniently. The right solution to please every wishes is to have a perfectly integrated dual-interface system where the mailing-list and the webforum is *one*. Displaying, encouraging proper threading on the webforum, respectfully matching the email threading. And reciprocal. Such that it wouldn't make any difference if I post per email, reply/quote per email or through the webforum. I'd be free to ignore the existence of the webforum as much as you could ignore it is a mailing list at the same time. Each subscriber electing to have the content delivery additionally per email, or not. Any webforum solution with an email notification mechanism in the style "hey someone just posted a reply" or "there have been 122 posts since your last visit" is useless to me. This is worse than not getting email at all: it pollutes the mailbox with contentless and countless reminders, yet doesn't solve the time-consuming issue to having to pull information from one webforum at a time, using all their different user interfaces. -- Best Regards, Meilleures salutations, Met vriendelijke groeten, Olivier Mascia _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
