I'm kinda new to those mailing lists and those are the only ones I ever subscribed so I'm a bit in the audience you're targeting James.
What I think is bad using mailing list it's the absence of votes. I'd often like to just hit a "+1" button for some mails just to say to the author I'm with him and I think s.he's ideas are great. In some of the recent threads, some of the ideas I agreed with were just smashed by others. I couldn't give my two cents and the debate juste ended and I couldn't say the author I was behind him.er. Another thing I think is not good is the absence of little chit-chat and editing. Actually, a lot of emails are just explanations of what the authors meant. That's pretty spammy and a few messages exchanged + editing would correct this spammy thing. In another hand, I think mailing lists are great to avoid short and useless messages. There's no spammy message like "I'm ok" which could be replaced by just a "+1" button. It forces us using LBYL principle (@poke Robert) and it (imho) better fills the needs of such discussions. As you may have get it, I'd rather a forum like thing rather than mailing lists but mailings lists are great. Le ven. 1 févr. 2019 à 18:22, Robert Vanden Eynde <robertv...@gmail.com> a écrit : > That's a nice question ! > > The main thing is "is this list more EmailLike or MessengerLike" > > When I speak on Messenger (or any instantaneous conversation software) I > send a lot of very small messages, like "+1", it's interactive, I'm > expecting a short answer. > > If I say something stupid, I undo, if I can't undo because the delay of my > client is done, I send another message beginning with "Oops" or something > obvious. It's the EAFP (Easier to ask for forgiveness than Permission) > style. > > The point is "looking ar my first few words, people understand the message" > > When I speak on TraditionalDifferedEmail, I'm more like LBYL (Look before > you Leap), I write a long, but structured message, such that people see > first the structure, (intro, body, conclusion), and look in the message if > they want. > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, 17:40 James Lu <jam...@gmail.com wrote: > >> A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t >> understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of >> “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”. >> >> >> So I want an open discussion on: How can we communicate clearer? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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