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Usenet, IRC, and the chat clients that were around 20 to 30 years ago were very popular and none of them ran on a website. But your comment doesn't answer my o

by u801e 4y ago

Usenet, IRC, and the chat clients that were around 20 to 30 years ago were very popular and none of them ran on a website. But your comment doesn't answer my original question about level of comfort. Why is learning how to write programs, run them, and learn frameworks considered a comfortable activity, but using email is not? The former is orders of magnitude more difficult compared to the latter, so ease of use doesn't seem to be the reason.

listenallyall 4y ago
> Usenet, IRC, and the chat clients that were around 20 to 30 years ago were very popular and none of them ran on a website. And they all died out quickly as soon as web-based platforms stole their audience.
- u801e 4y ago
  Neither of your comments answer my question about level of comfort. I would be interested to hear your answer to that question.
  - listenallyall 4y ago
    Tough shit. You made a dumb point and now you're doubling down on it, and challenging me to get into an argument about it with you. All of which is typical trolling behavior.
    - u801e 4y ago
      So you don't have an answer and replied with an ad hominem instead.
      - listenallyall 4y ago
        You've already provided an answer, troll: In my experience, any Microsoft Exchange/O365 server will most likely mangle the email server side (introducing quoted-printable encoding characters or changing the message-id field. Gmail will require that you enable insecure application access in order to use git-send-email. If you don't do that, then using git-send-email will result in a authentication failure error (which you can see if you use the --debug flag). So this email-only workflow doesn't work with the two most popular email clients. Where do I sign up? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579649
        u801e 4y ago
        > doesn't work with the two most popular email clients Clearly you don't understand the difference between a MUA and a MTA. Perhaps you should spend some time learning the difference instead of engaging in any more name calling. There's no use continuing this discussion when you outed yourself as someone who has no idea what they're talking about.

by u801e 4y ago

listenallyall 4y ago

> Usenet, IRC, and the chat clients that were around 20 to 30 years ago were very popular and none of them ran on a website. And they all died out quickly as soon as web-based platforms stole their audience.

u801e 4y ago
Neither of your comments answer my question about level of comfort. I would be interested to hear your answer to that question.
- listenallyall 4y ago
  Tough shit. You made a dumb point and now you're doubling down on it, and challenging me to get into an argument about it with you. All of which is typical trolling behavior.
  - u801e 4y ago
    So you don't have an answer and replied with an ad hominem instead.
    - listenallyall 4y ago
      You've already provided an answer, troll: In my experience, any Microsoft Exchange/O365 server will most likely mangle the email server side (introducing quoted-printable encoding characters or changing the message-id field. Gmail will require that you enable insecure application access in order to use git-send-email. If you don't do that, then using git-send-email will result in a authentication failure error (which you can see if you use the --debug flag). So this email-only workflow doesn't work with the two most popular email clients. Where do I sign up? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579649
      - u801e 4y ago
        > doesn't work with the two most popular email clients Clearly you don't understand the difference between a MUA and a MTA. Perhaps you should spend some time learning the difference instead of engaging in any more name calling. There's no use continuing this discussion when you outed yourself as someone who has no idea what they're talking about.