This is probably a matter of personal preference. Developers do many
weird things that regular people do not :) developers might still prefer
vi over textmate and use sendmail. There might be other advantages I
don't know of, but for the average user, this form of communication is
troublesome. I don't feel I have to clog my mailing box and invent some
filters, in order to communicate, scan for RE:RE:RE: topics and then dig
through plenty of text, quoted, unquoted to the 4th level, fishing out
for the actual response. Maybe it's just a whim. Or maybe I just feel
too old for this :) We live in the technology world. We can do better. I
just know that sometimes developers have a different definition of
"better" :) Above everything else, whatever works for developers is
probably ok and I don't mind (and shouldn't mind). But the user-driven
community could for sure use a better format.
S.
ah, and on the mailing list bit - I've never been involved in any sort of
major OS project that doesn't use mailing lists. Even wordpress uses
mailing lists. I'm curious, how is it that you feel they are archaic? I
find them extremely useful and quite common among development groups.
