The problem is more fundamental. In all things, we need to seek more commonality and simplicity in our lives. In computer related issues, I have found over the years that people who do not understand how things work (thanks to the poor educational systems) simply like to add more complexity because they do not know to follow industry standards. The other possibility is that some do not want to change to better methodologies because of a sad conservative mind-set.
In the case of digital communications, everything is based upon voice (telephone), written words (document files and e-mail) and the visual (videos and web pages). When it comes to forums, either for discussion and/or for help, the interface has traditionally been thru the browser window into industry standard forum software, with the e-mail part used only for notifications and private messages. With that said, mailing lists were the old method before there was a graphical user interface available. There is little reason for its use any longer, and quite frankly, I cannot think of a good one. For this day and age, using anything other than standard forum software is detrimental to usability and productivity. That's just how it is, and there is no reason to go backwards in these things. We do not download forum databases; rather we expect the hosts to maintain that for our use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/a2e.5c5351ff%40qubes-os.info. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
