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.)