> On Jan 25, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 2:05 PM, Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I’d like to understand more the subjective comments on this thread, such as
>> "may intimidate newcomers”. This feels very subjective, and while I am not
>> disagreeing with that statement I don’t fully understand its justification.
>> Signing up for mailing lists is fairly straightforward, and one isn’t
>> obligated to respond to threads. Are forums really any less “intimating”?
>> If so, why is that the case? Is this simply a statement about mailing lists
>> not being in vogue?
>
> Signing up for mailing lists is straightforward, yes—but that’s only a small
> part of it. Signing up for a mailing list is a *commitment.* Once you do it,
> your inbox will be inundated with mailing list posts, making it difficult to
> find messages that actually have been intended for you personally. Therefore,
> you’ll have to deal with that somehow. You can set up rules in Mail to route
> mailing list posts to a separate folder, but that won’t help you if you
> access your webmail from a public machine.
FWIW, I subscribe to many mailing lists in gmail and have it auto filter emails
to mailing lists into a separate mailbox (well, really, tags) for each list.
It works great for me.
This doesn’t detract from your point about it being a commitment though.
-Chris
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