On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 21:57, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 18:36:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > wrote: > >On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:16, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:23:43 +0100, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > >> wrote: > >> >The vast majority of people who > >> >are forced to use emails do so for work via a > >> >work-mediated/administered interface that tries to make it somewhat > >> >tolerable, like Outlook or Gmail. > >> > >> This must be the least accurate statement about Outlook that I have > >> ever read. Outlook does not have a single feature that makes email > >> more tolerable in any way. Au contraire. The feature called threading > >> is incompatible with the rest of the world and not even very useful in > >> an outlook-only environment, the search function finds everything but > >> the mail you're looking for, and Outlook's disability to quote > >> decently is notorious for having led to the whole world generating > >> only top-posting replies. > >> > >> Outlook is essentially responsible for making email so much worse > >> today than it was in the 1990s. > >> > >> Even Salsa's and github's praised way to communitate in an MR is > >> VASTLY inferior to a decently threading mail client like mutt or even > >> Thunderbird. > >> > >> I violently disagree with the rest of the message as well and am not > >> willing to spoil the rest of my day by replying in detail. I'd prefer > >> learning a bit more Slowfoxtrot later tonight. > > > >Again, please understand that outside of the bubble of tech nerds of > >the 70s/80s, saying out loud phrases such as "The only right way to > >collaborate is reading and writing emails is in my terminal" means > >getting looked at like being a dinosaur just escaped from a museum. > >The rest of the universe just doesn't work like that, sorry. There's > >nothing wrong with being a dinosaur for an individual of course, we > >will all become one at some point, but optimizing for making dinosaurs > >happy from the simple perspective of demographics is a sure way for a > >project to slowly slide into irrelevance. The fact that the project > >membership has just about managed to remain flat while the tech sector > >absolutely exploded in size should send shivers down everyone's > >spines. > > Now that you have added personal insult while not adding anything for > the cause, I recuse myself from continuing this situation. I am happy > that I don't need to collaborate with you in my Debian efforts.
What are you on about? What personal insult?
