Agreed. I use Gmail's web client, and it makes mailing lists very simple to follow. No different from reading a message board, and certainly easier to follow than an on-wiki discussion--where you try to follow indentions to keep the conversation intact, but have to largely rely on timestamps to construct the order of thoughts.
Plenty of other ancient technologies are still in use; doesn't make them bad. Saying "we should use something else" without any real suggestions isn't going to get us anywhere.
-Chad
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
I think it was already pointed out many times here that mailing lists are the stone age technology for discussions. Virtually everything else is better suited. This might be a good starting point.
It's a nonstarter. If you absolutely don't like mailing lists no matter what, you don't have to subscribe. Otherwise, there are lots of technologies that have been developed to make mailing lists quite palatable, and in my opinion superior to other cheap (free) and easily implemented alternatives. Mailing lists are only stone age technology if you're using stone age email software. (Or, unfortunately, if one of the mailing list participants is using especially stone-age email software, but in those rare cases that participant can be moderated rather than everyone, and in practice peer pressure is generally enough to get them to stop.)
foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l