Karl Anderson wrote:
Ken Manheimer <klm@digicool.com> writes:
I dont see this as a problem: You only create a new list when the traffic for that proposal gets too great for zope-dev. Threading is good enough before that point.
Yes, but zope-dev has a relatively high traffic load... Why should you have to put up with all that 'noise' if you're only interested in posts for your comparatively small discussion?
Yeah - maillists flow by, and not everyone can follow all the traffic all the time!! The cool thing about "content-based" mailling lists, where people can subscribe to notifications about changes in subthreads, is that you just subscribe to the part of the discussion that has your interests!!
I haven't understood this gripe ever since I started reading mail with Gnus. Before anyone groans, I'm not sure that Gnus is ready for general use by anyone who doesn't want to learn elisp - but surely there's anther reader with these features?
most have features a bit/lot/sufficiently like this. They (apparently) do not work for everyone. Moreover,not everyone works the same way.
The point that I'm trying to make is that a mailing list has all the strucure needed to keep abreast of an important thread. I don't think it's perfect when you can't afford to miss a single important article, but it works great for general lists.
as long as you can follow it. But for prolonged and diverging discussions? Not quite IMO/Experience. Or for discussions that you fall into in the middle? And what if you want to follow discussions at different places, with different tools and you depend on a POP Server or differential access (POP/IMAP/Web) to a mailserver?
I read the 2-10 articles that I'm probably interested in, and miss the 95% which is almost always noise.
The question is why you'd want to receive all this if you don't have to (as remarked above). As I understood it, the discussion is less about tools and more about modes of discussion. Rik