Allan Irving wrote: > How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists?
While email may not be perfect, and it doesn't offer many of the features found in tools such as Slack or Google Plus or Twitter, it has two big advantages: First, everyone uses email, so no matter how many forums you participate in, messages appear right there in a tool you already go to multiple times per day. The alternative is to learn a half dozen different interfaces, with what seems like a new one every year. Second, email is pretty much the only not-real-time communication mechanism that lets each user pick his or her own interface. I like mutt, he likes Google Mail, she likes the Apple Mac mail client, some other guy likes Thunderbird, and one person I know still uses a weird emacs mail client -- but it's all the same messages. Sure, sites like Twitter publish their APIs, but there are still many more email clients than there are clients for any particular forum tool. So thanks, but I'm sticking to email. Adam _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
