> Mailing lists by themselves are terrible, because there's no history. You can't scroll up to find context for the conversation. You can get public archives, b

> Mailing lists by themselves are terrible, because there's no history. You can't scroll up to find context for the conversation. You can get public archives, but then where you actually use the mailing list and where you go to look at history are completely separate, which is a terrible UX. Gmane actually works really well at addressing the problems you describe in terms history. Their NNTP gateway allowed me to download and search the git mailing list messages since 2009 in my email/news client.