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> What limitations do mailing lists impose on open source development that are not present in other tools? None, in my opinion. On the contrary, they are the o
by abalashov 10y ago
> What limitations do mailing lists impose on open source development that are not present in other tools?
None, in my opinion. On the contrary, they are the only tool that demand a structure — just by the nature of e-mail messages — that is coherent enough to be highly useful when searching archives later.
- u801e 10y ago> On the contrary, they are the only tool that demand a structure — just by the nature of e-mail messages Newsgroups also have this structure and they have the advantage of easily doing an archive search (by being able to download part of or the entire message archive of a given group and using the search features of your mail/news client).