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Small, one-off projects like Linux, postgres, git? What makes mailing lists worse for large discussions? Decent mail readers support threaded conversations and
by black-tea 8y ago
Small, one-off projects like Linux, postgres, git?
What makes mailing lists worse for large discussions? Decent mail readers support threaded conversations and decent mailing list participants know how to quote properly. This has been around for decades and I don't think github discussions add anything except more noise maybe.
- Yaggo 8y agoYeah, I think it's more a cultural problem than technical limitation of email system. Even many technical users nowadays lack email skills.
- kkarakk 8y ago>Decent mail readers and decent mailing list participants the first is rare(in that no one bothers using mail readers) and the latter is non existent in the current generation - which you do have to interact with.