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Almost all good email clients are able to manage mailing lists nicely, even gmail have a mailing list filter which can be set to make emails from the list go di
by btw0 17y ago
Almost all good email clients are able to manage mailing lists nicely, even gmail have a mailing list filter which can be set to make emails from the list go directly under a folder, skipping your inbox. So with a sane email client, a mailing list doesn't necessarily get in the way, you can check it once a day.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think mailing lists are great and have a purpose, I'm subscribed to several. Btw, mail clients are a matter of preference, being able to handle mailing lists does not qualify a client as 'good', and not being able to do so does not qualify one as 'bad'. I just can't see the case for essentially moving HN off-web to a mailing list. If there was a sufficiently narrowly scoped mailing list I might do it (say, one for announcements for startups looking for seed funding, or a mailing list for 'it flies' announcements for startups that make a certain benchmark, say profitability, or a successful exit). Generalized stuff not so much.