[extropy-chat] META: list delivery

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:03:07AM -0500, Heartland wrote:

> Looking at my inbox and the archives, the delivery rate seems to hover somewhere 
> around 80% which is not good at all. The problem with these mailing lists is that 

Yeah, hotmail really sucks mossy rocks. You should ditch it.

> they are so decentralized. The error could have occurred at any point along the 

That's not a bug, it's a feetchur.

> delivery chain. I suspect that switching from mailing list to a message board 
> format would have prevented this from happening. Besides, IMHO, message boards are 

Ugh. Not a good idea. BBSses are a single point of failure (they don't automatically
result in distributed archiving), and they encourage the cancer of rich content.

> a lot more convenient than mail-based fora. It's much easier to choose and track 
> the threads you care about and you don't get "the whole list" in your inbox every 

Don't blame the medium if your mail client can't handle threads.

> time you open it. Finally, it would be nice to free up that precious inbox space 
> for private communication only (and spam).

We've been through this before. Yes, email is dying, but only because the
new kids don't use it. There is no reason for a seasoned user to blame the
limitations of their personal environment on the medium. The medium is really 
rich and mature, but the implementation quality varies widely. If it hurts, you're almost
certainly doing it wrong.

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