Chris Angelico writes:
> Have you ever actually convinced someone to move off Gmail onto
> some other client?
No, but then, I never tried. I have gotten a couple score people to
seriously try about a dozen different MUAs over the last three decades
though. It's not impossible. But that's
I think this thread has gone off-topic as this mailing list is not about
Gmail (the client or the service). ;)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:21 AM Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:41 PM Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 02:23:52PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:20:41PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> In those terms, I'm talking about convincing someone to move off the
> _Gmail client_, whether or not they continue using the Gmail service.
> Have you ever convinced someone to stop using the Gmail web interface
> and start using
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:41 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 02:23:52PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > Have you ever actually
> > convinced someone to move off Gmail onto some other client?
>
> Gmail is an email provider with a web interface. As a provider, it is
>
Without getting into the pros and cons of mailing lists versus github
versus discourse versus Stackoverflow versus ...
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 02:23:52PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Have you ever actually
> convinced someone to move off Gmail onto some other client?
Gmail is an email
Bah. Tablet client defaults to reply, not reply to all...
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 08:10, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 03:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 2:07 PM Stephen J. Turnbull
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > There's a big difference, though. Email users choose
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:43:39PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> For example, here's a post of yours from a few weeks ago:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2019-March/055911.html
>
> AFAICT, it is not possible to find that post with Google.
>
> For example,
> doing a
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 2:07 PM Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
>
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
> > General principle: People who complain about email are using
> > suboptimal clients, people who complain about non-email systems are
> > using suboptimal services. And there's nothing that's truly
Chris Angelico writes:
> General principle: People who complain about email are using
> suboptimal clients, people who complain about non-email systems are
> using suboptimal services. And there's nothing that's truly optimal in
> either case (some email clients do come close, but only for
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:52 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:25:34PM -, Richard Whitehead wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old
> > content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 11:56 AM David Mertz wrote:
>
> That said, if someone writes a FAQ about this mailing list, the first answer
> can be "We are not moving discussion to GitHub / Slack / Discuss / Reddit /
> StackOverflow / MediaWiki /
> graffiti on popular buildings / etc"
>
That last
Dropping the mailing list is another topic that often comes up, and is
always a terrible idea. Every suggester had a different platform in mind,
only consistent in all being vastly worse than email for this purpose
That said, if someone writes a FAQ about this mailing list, the first
answer can
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:25:34PM -, Richard Whitehead wrote:
> Chris,
>
> As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old
> content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that.
"Effectively impossible" is a gross exaggeration.
The old
On 28/03/2019 15:25, Richard Whitehead wrote:
Chris,
As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old
content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that.
Please can I make a more radical suggestion, though: Drop the mailing list.
How about a
>
> there's been lots of discussion about that in the past.
>
Indeed. Personally, I’m all for keeping the mailing list. See past
discussions for the advantage.
I do think it might be a good idea to move to a gitHub repo once a topic
gets past the vague idea stage to the hammer out a proposal
Hi Richard,
there's been lots of discussion about that in the past. You can check out
https://discuss.python.org, which is the current most popular idea about an
alternative. It has not been decided if the mailing lists will be dropped
or not though, as far as I know.
Lys
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019
Chris,
As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old
content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that.
Please can I make a more radical suggestion, though: Drop the mailing list.
How about a GitHub repo - a specific one (with no code),
Hi all,
Inspired by Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer and some previous discussion son this
list, I've started a project to capture some of the common threads from
this list (and others).
We often find ourselves saying things like "this was discussed on this list
a year or so ago" when someone brings up
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