On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
There are times when highly threaded discussions on wiki are easier to follow than large quantities of entangled mailing list posts, but that is an exception, and in any case I follow the philosophy of trying to meet people where they are whenever reasonably feasible.
Thanks,
Pine
That's all well and good, but the significant difference is that email lists are a "push" form of communication. Everyone subscribed receives everything that is send, whether or not they're interested in that specific email. For people who feel the need to comment frequently and at length on every topic, then putting their comments on wiki is not only better for collating their points into a coherent whole, but better for the other list subscribers who don't have to wade through comments that didn't need to be sent to everyone.