On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Mads Kiilerich <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/14/2016 12:46 PM, Dominik Ruf wrote: >> >> since gmane ist practically dead I'd like to propose discourse as our >> discussion tool. > > > In my opinion: > > I like mailing lists. It can be very efficient when people follow > "netiquette". I guess the main advantage is that it pops up in my main > "feed" and can be processed in my preferred mail reading tool and offline. > When used properly, with correct threading and quoting, mails can be > processed efficiently. In general, I will know for sure that I processed > everything and nothing was lost. > > Gmane has always been dead to me. People who post through gmane tend to not > follow mailing list netiquette and impose a cost/overhead on those who use > the mailing list the way it was intended. For good and bad, gmail seems to > show otherwise nice mailing lists pretty much like gmane. > > Mailman 3 should also have some "make it look more like a forum" features > ... but I haven't tried that. > > I guess the really cool thing these days where "everybody" easily can > contribute would be to use facebook ... but I wouldn't know or care. > > I think the main problem with google groups is not so much that it isn't > open source - more that it isn't open. It is pretty much a forum and just > not a good mailing list system. > > Anyway: I don't see a problem to solve, and think discourse would be a > regression in how many of us use the mailing list. I haven't tried it, > though.
Discourse looks nice in some respects, but I also do not see the problem with the mailing list. Moreover, adding a second communication method means information would be in multiple places which is not very nice. I never liked web interfaces to mailing lists, like gmane. The gmail interface is fine for me, I don't see how it 'breaks' mailing lists. When I want to find back a full thread, after having found the thread title through google, I use the standard mailman archive interface. Never liked Google groups either. /Thomas _______________________________________________ kallithea-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general
