On 2020-08-18 at 17:57 +0100, rogercreagh wrote: > 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, A good email client would allow you to do that. (wait, where's that feature in evolution?) > or whole categories/sub-forums that don't interest you, mailman does support multiple categories. Although I don't think I have ever seen that in use. > you can be notified when there is something for you in particular, You could set a filter to "notify" you when whatever conditions arise. I agree the forum presets are generally better, since few people would set that up, though. > you can go away for a month and easily catch up when you get back, You can go away for a month, and read the pending list mail when you get back (or not). You might not be keen on replying to an old mail a month later, but it's the same issue as replying to an old forum thread. > you can easily browse through previous topics that might answer your > question, and so on. And do people really do that? It also depends on what is considered "easily", too. > Oh yes, and if you are a diehard non-web person you can even have all > posts delivered to your inbox as email and continue to drink from the > firehose. It depends a lot on communities. Some communities are forum-fans, while other are fans or mailing lists. There are some communities which died after moving from a mailing list format to a forum (while others didn't). In general, I would be very wary of changing the status-quo. You do have some good points, though. The "mailing lists are hard to browse" would probably be solved with mailman3's hyperkitty, which gives a forum-feel to the archives. I don't like that it tries to add things like "voting", though, as that escapes the role of a mailing list. Regards _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
