On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote:
> My issue with email lists is that for most emails I delete after reading. > If at some time later, I come across a tagging situation that I recall > being previously discussed I need to go into the mail archives at > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo find the list (probably tagging > but maybe others) and then find which month of which year it was discussed. > > Most forums I have seen and used have a much better search setup than that. > > Enter Google :) You type "site: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging"; and then your request and you probably get what you want. > Also, if I need or want to resurrect the thread, that it typically trivial > on a forum as you just post a reply. But if I’ve pulled up the old thread > out of the list archive I will have broken the message ID information in > the email headers that make threading options on a mail reader work well. > That's true. Therefore forums *are *better than mailing lists. But they are still not good enough to make a discussion easy to follow, if it tends to split up or causes a lot of opinions. Cheers, Kotya
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