> You can usually just send your patch to mailing list without joining at all and you will be replied off the list. News to me. The few times I've gone through

> You can usually just send your patch to mailing list without joining at all and you will be replied off the list. News to me. The few times I've gone through the hoops, the ML's have said things like "you have to join to send mail". I think there's at least one ML I'm still waiting on the join confirmation mail. > Unbelievable. The only explanation I can find is that you avoided dealing with diffs and used SVN only on your workplace. No, you see there are other ways of interacting with shit like that. With tortoisesvn and tortoisegit, I maybe have to use the command-line git once or twice a month, and that's generally for unfucking coworkers merge-attempts. There are also other ways of dealing with merges, like actual tools for that (winmerge, meld, etc...). I don't see any reason to actually deal with the underlying diffs basically ever. > Mailing lists are supposed to be read in your email client. If you want an archive, use NNTP archive like gmane. I was specifically complaining about NNTP archives. I've yet to see a mailing list archive that's readable in a sane manner. And the point is, if I'm a new contributor, I'm not already subscribed to the mailing list, and therefore have no way to reading it in my client, which still doesn't provide a nice "forum-thread" like view which is the best way (in my opinion) of consuming that sort of discussion.