David Weintraub wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:23:57 -0400: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ds Jstc <dsj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I have one big problem that I can't resolve. > > > > It's this: the mailing list paradigm drives me insane. > > > > I want to search for solutions, complain about my favorite missing features, > > and reply to other people's problems when I've already solved them. But I > > can't seem to do that without subscribing to the mailing list. And my inbox > > is entirely full enough, thank you. > > You don't have to use this mailing list. You can use forums such as > Stackoverflow.com. However, as mailing lists go, this is one of the > most helpful and useful ones I've seen. Because of that, you're > probably stuck with this email list. >
Also, some of the maintainers are on this list. (I personally don't read any web forums related to Subversion.) > But, the best reason is that with 7 Gigabytes of storage, I don't have > to delete any emails. After a couple of years, you have an archive of > easily searchable Subversion emails (better than the current web > archive they use). > Nah. I have N GB of mail storage from my provider, and I still set the svn-dev mailbox to auto-delete mail older than M days. When I need something older I use the archives.
