On 16 June 2014 10:41, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The way to have a better mailing list is to not use a
mailing list.
NNTP with a web frontend would be better in pretty much every way.
There are no good web frontends for NNTP. (GMane and Google Groups
both manage "worst of both worlds".) My hypothesis is that this is
because the fundamental unit of NNTP/email is the message, but of web
forums it's the thread. Idle rambling, with comments from people who
also used to love NNTP but can't be bothered any more:
http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/566555.html
- d.