On 2/1/19 2:58 PM, Abe Dillon wrote:
[Dan Sommers]
A mailing list is not a feed... Dan, a decades and decades long fan of
mailing lists and real email clients.
I'm only familiar with Gmail which keeps reply chains coherent and moves
each chain to the top of my "forums" tab based on who responded last.
I haven't explored the various email clients available, can you suggest one?
I used mutt for a long time, and then claws-mail, and now
thunderbird. They all met my needs, although I did give
up on claws-mail when I got a hidpi display (claws-mail
based on gtk2, which doesn't grok hidpi displays).
Another point in favor of email clients over web pages is
that there are many of them, and *you* control the display
and other preferences rather than whoever wrote the forum
or owns the server.
[Dan Sommers]
Whoever posted last ends up at the bottom of the thread, so that I can
read threads from top to bottom in chronological order. Getting the
last word in shouldn't earn a spot at the top of the list.
That doesn't like any closer an approximation to a merit-based solution to
me.
Perhaps not all by itself. Many/most email clients allow
individual users to "score" emails by various criteria, and
then to display higher scoring messages "above" the others,
or not display certain messages at all. Personally, I don't
use the automated systems, but they're very comprehensive
(arguably too complicated), and again, *user* adjustable.
In an optimal technical discussion, opinions from users
don't count for anything. The ideas stand on their own
merits and research and metrics; users only serve to
confirm the methodology.
Dan
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