On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 2014-12-27 19:13, Evan G wrote: > > A little hyperbolic, considering we're all the same rust > > community. > > > > And as far as I know you can set discourse up to work like a > > mailing list (i.e. email me for every post, email me even if > > you've seen me recently, don't batch emails, stuff like that) > > ... unless you're using GMANE which is one of the few remaining > *sane* ways of handling dozens of mailing lists AFAICT. In contrast > to mailing lists it doesn't seem feasible to keep up with dozens of > online forums since they a) mostly run different software, i.e. > usually non-mail-friendly, and b) I cannot get a unified interface > to all the forums I would need to if all the mailing lists I'm > currently following were to be converted to forums. > > I fully recognize that this isn't likely to convince anyone who > isn't used to the awesome that is GMANE/NNTP, but I just want to > point out what a shame it is that we're going ever-closer to > siloization of the "debate/discussion" format (and content!) when we > actually have a reasonably good technology to avoid it (NNTP) -- > just out of apathy and/or laziness on the part of forum software > users *and* vendors/implementers. :(
I'm curious, why doesn't rust use Mozilla's NNTP infrastructure? _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
