On Jun 14, 2018, at 9:05 PM, Shal Farley wrote: > > On 2018-06-14 1:47 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >> Would you rather see drh spending time fighting spam or writing useful >> software?
> I think that's the best reason for outsourcing the mailing list problem Agreed, which is why I’ve also been on the “keep the mailing list” side of the argument: the difficulty in implementing SMTP and its raft of concomitant standards. There are pros and cons on both sides, and the community has listed several of each. drh has his poll results now, so I think it’s now time to start winding these threads down and wait to see how he chooses to spend his time. > I don't think that choice precludes work on building something integrated > with fossil that may be interesting and useful for drh and for us. Also agreed. In that case, then maybe full SMTP support in Fossil wouldn’t be justified, and it would require integration with a local MTA instead, to push the burden off to the other component. That wouldn’t be very Fossil, but it would be pragmatic. > Someone else here suggested already that what works best as a component of > fossil in support of a development team might not be the same solution as > what works best for an open community of users and developers asking and > answering questions. That was me. Developer list != user list. Different technologies for each within a single project are sometimes justified. > Yes, I'm a mailing-list advocate, and hence a dinosaur. It’s one thing to label yourself such, and quite another for others to throw that label at you as an accusation. Ahem. :) (Speaking as one who’s been using the Internet since shortly after bang paths went out of style.) _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
