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Who actually prefers mailing lists over other methods of communication where email is optional?
by astrodust 11y ago
Who actually prefers mailing lists over other methods of communication where email is optional?
- ams6110 11y agoOther methods such as? I still think nothing beats email for ubiquity and it allows the subscriber to consume and organize the content on his own terms (i.e. preferred email client, etc.)
- bjacobel 11y agoI don't have a preferred email client; I have an email client I hate least.
- sleepydog 11y agoI for one. There are fewer advertisements, most messages are just plain text and easily searchable, and I can receive and organize the data on my own terms. I still have mailing list posts I saved that are around 12 years old; every forum post I made over 10 years ago is gone from the face of the internet.
- dublinben 11y agoWhat methods of communication do you think have replaced the simple mailing list?
- astrodust 11y agoGitHub issues, for me, is way better. You can opt-in and opt-out of notifications per thread, so you can drop out of something that turns into a total fracas. I still get email notifications for things I'm subscribed to, or when I'm mentioned. It's exceptionally handy. Subscribing to even a single mailing list tends to flood my email client with junk. Unless you go through the trouble of filtering these things, which is a total nightmare to do across multiple devices, you're just going to have to read through every single message.