On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 11:22, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 19:11, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > >> Anyhow, this is probably a bit off-topic again. > > > > Yes, but that's a drawback to mailing lists in my opinion and it's hard > to avoid. :) > > I did consider what I would have done on Discourse, and came to the > conclusion that I would have done exactly the same - I've no idea how > Discourse would help with a "here's some things I thought of that I > felt needed saying while reading this thread" post. Obviously I could > move the reply to a new topic, but I could just as easily have changed > the subject in the mailing list. So without meaning to ignore your > smiley, I don't think it's really a fault with mailing lists, just > with how people discuss things ;-) >
In Discourse an admin could have selected every post related to "Discourse versus Mailing Lists" and then created a new topic. Here, I can't do that, and people who choose to keep replying to this thread on this topic (like I am now :) will be accidentally, directly working against keeping the conversation on-topic. So my comment was more general to this overall thread than you specifically, Paul.
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