On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 16:26 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> > That's a mess and the whole email is formatted like that. I actually >> > have >> > not read the email because of the formatting issue. As Oleg pointed out, >> > when you go with a federated solution like mail, you are the mercy of >> > whatever tools people choose to use with the service. But when you use a >> > centralized approach you know the experience is consistent for everyone >> > and >> > thus there's a certain level of quality control. >> > >> >> IMO that's an argument in favour of the federated approach. > > > I don't understand how me receiving a badly formatted email due to some > disagreement between the sender's and my email client is a point of support?
That in itself isn't. But your next point is that email lets people choose what they use, whereas centralized systems force everyone to use the exact same client (or whatever clients the one central authority provides - eg Slack offers web and desktop, and I think mobile). In fact, the entire *point* of the centralized systems is to force everyone to use a restricted set of clients, instead of having the freedom to choose. Would the world be a better place if everyone were forced to write all code in Python? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
