On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 19:09 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Actually I don't subscribe to the cult of the cool. But the trouble > > with email for this sort of use is it only really works if you are > > following all the threads all the time. > > It arrives willy nilly warts and all, which is fine if you are > > continuously actively involved. > I don't understand this - all the forum posts, sorry not-a-forum > posts, arrive willy nilly the same as mail does?
Willy-Nilly as in "real time" or "asynchronously". :) > Or are you saying you don't use the mail reader to sort and thread > your mail. No, I read the mail in my INBOX. Otherwise, what is the point? > > as I was saying again having hit [enter], the beauty of a forum is > > that it puts you the user in control of what you see and when you > > see it. You can ignore threads, or whole categories/sub-forums that > > don't interest you, you can be notified when there is something for > > you in particular, you can go away for a month and easily catch up > > when you get back, you can easily browse through previous topics > > that might answer your question, and so on. > And why can't you do that with mail? I have mailboxes with 10s of > thousands of unread mails in them that I am successfully ignoring. I have mailboxes with nearly 200,000 messages! > > Different solutions for different folk, neither is right or wrong. > > For me email is good for one to one conversation and ok for > > broadcast one to many information, but pretty rubbish for many to > > many discussion/sharing. > Strangely the mailing list format seems to have worked OK for this > listfor 20 years ... +1,000 -- Adam Tauno Williams, [email protected] Multi-Modal Activists Against Auto Dependent Development resisting the unAmerican socialists of the Motorist hegemony http://www.mmaaadd.org _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
