On 02/12/2013 16:21, David Piepgrass wrote: > > That would be so. much. better. than a mailing list. > > Hi. Could you expand on this? I don?t necessarily disagree, but as the > one proposing change it?s up to you to convince everyone else :) > > -- > Simon Sapin >
Okay, well, I've never liked mailing lists at all, because: 1. In non-digest mode, My inbox gets flooded. 2. In digest mode, it's quite inconvenient to write a reply, having to cut out all the messages that I don't want to reply to and manually edit the subject line. Also, unrelated messages are grouped together while threads are broken apart, making discussions harder to follow. 3. In email I don't get a threaded view. If I go to mailing list archives to see a threaded view, I can't reply. 4. I have to manually watch for replies to my messages or to threads I'm following. If someone mentions my name (not that they would), I won't be notified. In contrast, Discourse has a variety of email notification options. I don't know if those options are enough to please everybody, but you can probably configure it to notify you about all posts, which makes it essentially equivalent to a mailing list. It supports reply by email, so those that prefer a mailing list can still pretend it's a mailing list. Currently I'm getting an shrunk digest of Discourse Meta--by email I only get a subset of all messages, auto-selected by Discourse, whatever it thinks is interesting. That's good for me: I really don't want to see every message. Plus, a mailing list offers less privacy as it mandates publishing your email address. That's not a big deal for me personally, but do you really want to require that from every Rust user? (btw, if I'm wrong about any of the above points, I promise there are lots of other netizens out there who have the same misconception(s), so many of them will avoid mailing lists. The fact that y'all are talking to me on a mailing list suggests that the disadvantages of a mailing list are not a big deal *to you*, but as for those who aren't participating, you can't conclude *they* prefer mailing lists.) And like mailing lists, Discourse also supports private messages. I don't understand why Paul mentioned GPG. You want to encrypt messages to a public mailing list? You can sign messages, but surely almost no one actually checks the signature, and I'd be surprised if Discourse didn't offer some built-in evidence of identity (surely it's not like email in letting you spoof the sender name easily?). I heard discourse supports attachments, just that you may have to go to the forum to attach or download them (rather than by email).
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