On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:23:14PM +0100, Thomas wrote: > On 2018-06-14 20:59, Warren Young wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Thomas <tho...@dateiliste.com> wrote: > > > > > > no one wants to see all those in their inbox. > > > > Mailing list messages are easily filtered. > > > > I have one mailbox for each mailing list I subscribe to, and I read through > > the messages in list order, which makes it easy to mentally switch gears > > from one project to the next. > > Most people only have one mailbox. I presume you're referring to folders.
OK, I guess that makes it pretty clear that your knowledge of mail handling is limited. That's unsurprising, given that the majority of fori proponents never really managed basic things like mail filtering... > > If one project gets out of hand for a while, I can mark only that one > > mailbox as “read” without declaring email bankruptcy on all my other email. > > Forum software offers the very same functionality but that's not the direct > purpose of it. In a mailing list you're either "in" or "out". A forum > provides all possible options. I've had to deal with my share of fori. Frankly, they all suck for power users, often badly. While mailing lists do tend to be a bit more annoying than newsgroups, they nevertheless share the majority of advantages. Offline access, decent filtering etc. Heck, a lot of fori programs still hasn't even managed good threading. You can't search a mailing list? Stop using Outlook. Joerg _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
