Well there's always r/rust/ <http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/>. It usually works pretty well.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:45 PM, David Piepgrass <[email protected]>wrote: > 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). > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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