On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > Yes, I'm > aware of web forums: I've used hundreds of them. They suck. They ALL > suck, they just all suck differently. I could spend the next several > thousand lines explaining why, but instead I'll just abbreviate: they > don't handle threading, they don't let me use my editor of choice, > they don't let me build my own archive that I can search MY way including > when I'm offline, they are brittle and highly vulnerable to abuse > and security breaches, they encourage worst practices in writing > style (including top-posting and full-quoting), they translate poorly > to other formats, they are difficult to archive, they're even more > difficult to migrate (whereas Unix mbox format files from 30 years ago > are still perfectly usable today), they aren't standardized, they > aren't easily scalable, they're overly complex, they don't support > proper quoting, they don't support proper attribution, they can't > be easily forwarded, they...oh, it just goes on. My point being that > there's a reason that the IETF and the W3C and NANOG and lots of other > groups that could use anything they want use mailing lists: they work.
One of the best rants I’ve ever read. Full mental harmonic resonance while I read this. Hope you don’t mind, but I think I’ll be plagiarizing your comments in the future. Maybe I’ll post it on a couple of the web forums I currently have the luxury of regularly hating. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
