On 01/18/2015 07:34 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
Now I'm curious: Does anybody here really like the use of mailing lists? Or do we all simply go through the struggle of setting up filters etc. just because this is the way it has always been?
Yes, I really like mailing lists. No, I've never found setting up filters to be a struggle. Perhaps you're using tools from the 90s. I use modern email clients.
Mailing lists allow me to process information at my own pace, in one place (my mail client). Tools that make me go to a half-dozen different websites may be prettier, but in the end, they invariably result in my losing touch with those projects, because I simply have too many places to check.
It's not because it's the way it's always been, so much that it's because nobody has yet come up with something better that works for everyone.
The tools that you mention - Gitlab/Github - communicate with me via email, otherwise I'd simply never know that something had happened.
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