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It doesn't make sense for large projects to move to other systems. Control is lost of the history, which automatically disqualifies any platform. Using servic
by IncRnd 9y ago
It doesn't make sense for large projects to move to other systems. Control is lost of the history, which automatically disqualifies any platform. Using services others than e-mail will also entail a revamp and move to a different service every few years.
Email is a far lower cost and more reliable medium most other methods.
- u801e 9y agoI've always wondered why newsgroups aren't used instead of email. They pretty much have the same advantages of email and they're far better in terms of searching archives compared to email. Web interfaces for searching email list archives are painful to use. If it wasn't for services like gmane (and later public-inbox), it would be very difficult to view archives of those lists.
- IncRnd 9y agoNewsgroups could be an exception to what I wrote. That's a good point. But, newsgroups don't use the special protocols that I meant, which may not be long-lived enough.