Mailing Lists. Everyone here seems to be conflating good written communication with documentation, but good written communication has happened via a mailing li

Mailing Lists. Everyone here seems to be conflating good written communication with documentation, but good written communication has happened via a mailing list for decades. Mailing lists provide the many to many interface of a meeting or IRC but unlike those they happen asynchronously, handle many topics, many users and are searchable. Async especially is the key because it allows responses to be informed and well thought out. This is a proven model in our industry especially, for decades it's been the primary communication medium for large international OSS projects built by teams of people that never met face to face. Imagine where linux would be if Linus was spending his time waking up at 3AM for a face to face with the team in New Zealand and updating wiki articles.