That's a wonderfully driven explanation :) Btw, discourse.org is free and open source so we can have something like discourse.racket.org on our own servers.
I understand that there's a strong feeling against it and if no need is felt regarding the change - I'm okay with this and I'll drop the issue. P.S. The "Inside Racket" series is amazing - I'm learning loads from that! Thanks everyone) On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > Email lists are still the best fully-open, privacy-respecting system we > have for this right now. > > Everyone else either wants to own their users and monetize violating their > users' privacy or their general power over users -- *or* they misunderstand > the medium and technology, such that they don't realize that they are > violating their users this way, without even getting paid for it. > > With the email lists, you can plug your own privacy-protecting, offline, > distributed user agent into this, and do all sorts of things, including > better threading, powerful rules-based scoring/ranking, automated > collaborative filtering, and even autonomous behavior on your behalf. Many > people had this functionality 20 years ago, atop email and Usenet. > > Why most people don't know this: The first dotcom gold rush twisted how > systems are architected, so that dotcoms could build themselves in as > middlemen, snooping and having control over people. And (only half-joking) > a bunch of Californians started a convention of being all coked up on > "performance enhancement" off-label abuse of prescription meds, which > helped them to churn out more lines of shoddy code, without the annoying > distractions of considering the impact and ethics of what they were doing. > And then successive generations of new programmers came along, and mimicked > what they saw, and were actively nudged by dotcoms' programming tutorials > and toolkits and such, to do systems architecture in secretly user-hostile > ways. > > (It's non-ideal that the Racket email lists are hosted by Google, at this > time, but at least -- with the SMTP/POP/IMAP/etc. distributed architecture, > designed before snooping and control became the dominant business model for > dotcoms -- individual users still have the option of defeating intimate > cross-site profiling in this instance.) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAAub%2BCdueZi2p%2BeYZYc91%2B%2Bxx8FTqzUZ_Cfx8HUKMQ6-05SZLg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
