Bah. Tablet client defaults to reply, not reply to all... On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 08:10, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 03:25, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 2:07 PM Stephen J. Turnbull >> <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: >> > >> > There's a big difference, though. Email users choose their own email >> > clients. If you choose GMail, well, "sorry, you chose GMail." (I >> > understand that avoiding GMail on Apple handhelds is kinda hard, >> > AppleMail sucking amazingly and all. But writing technical discussion >> > on a phone is strictly for disasters, anyway, at least IME.) >> >> That's half of my point (the distinction between "suboptimal clients" >> and "suboptimal services"), but the other half is that every time >> someone says "sorry, you chose Gmail", there's a lengthy discussion >> that ends up NOT showcasing any sort of perfect alternative - and >> often not even any *better* alternatives. Have you ever actually >> convinced someone to move off Gmail onto some other client? > > > As someone who uses gmail (the web interface) this is a good point. When > people say that there are all sorts of better alternative clients, no-one > has ever been able to offer one that actually satisfies my specific > requirements. Having said that, *in spite of having to use gmail* I still > strongly prefer mailing lists. > > I can’t easily articulate why, but certainly one aspect of it is the fact > that there is no universally accepted alternative that gets proposed. One > time it’s discourse, then it’s github, then something else I’ve never heard > of... And every other project that gets quoted as having “successfully > switched” seems to use something different. So in my mind the question > isn’t about mail or a particular alternative (that I can look at and form > an opinion about over time, as these discussions reoccur) but rather about > mail or “not mail” with an ever changing alternative that I have to > consider and re-assess from scratch each time. > > For me, mail wins as the stable alternative. And for something I spend so > much time on, stability is essential. > > Paul >
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