On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 07:59:16 -0700 (PDT) "'Alexander Makarov' via PHP Framework Interoperability Group" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mailing list has many issues: > > 1. Really hard to read conversations since everything is cited and > different mail clients are doing it differently. We just need to decide and impose a quoting style, and Netiquette already suggests one. > 2. Everything is a big sticky pile of mud. In a forum we'll be able > to have separate categories for separate proposals so it will be > **much** easier to focus. That's what threads are for, and threading capabilities in email clients have been there for decades. > 3. No permissions management. In a forum we'll be able to have a > "voting members" group with which has permission to post to voting > threads. We can have a separate mailing list for votes. Or, better, a website. > 4. Hard to browse history. In a forum it's all structured so > it's much easier. No need to dig much. Again. Threading helps a lot, and many email clients have grouping capabilities (static and dynamic), search, tagging. In a forum, you are limited by what the forum software gives you. > These are only the surface, I'm sure other members have their own > concerns about mailing lists. In contrast, forums: 1. Make it harder to know which articles are new in a discussion. 2. Makes it harder to understand to which message a reply refers to. 3. Makes it harder and slower to go from one thread to another. 4. Makes it much slower to read sequentially. 5. Makes it impossible to mark a thread as read when you are not interested. 6. Makes it harder to archive, star, mark, blacklist a message or a thread 7. Makes it hard or impossible to take a part of a discussion in private without needing to copy-paste it. And probably much more. My suggestion: if you are not happy with your client software, change your client software, don't try to force everybody else to change theirs. Bye. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/20160626093048.463ddc98%40namek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
