For what it's worth, I agree with Adam regarding email, but slack is a pretty clear replacement for IRC in a lot of companies and even sysadmin groups that I'm in.
Matt On Jul 12, 2015 9:06 AM, "Adam Moskowitz" <[email protected]> wrote: > Allan Irving wrote: > > How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? > > While email may not be perfect, and it doesn't offer many of the > features found in tools such as Slack or Google Plus or Twitter, it has > two big advantages: First, everyone uses email, so no matter how many > forums you participate in, messages appear right there in a tool you > already go to multiple times per day. The alternative is to learn a half > dozen different interfaces, with what seems like a new one every year. > Second, email is pretty much the only not-real-time communication > mechanism that lets each user pick his or her own interface. I like > mutt, he likes Google Mail, she likes the Apple Mac mail client, some > other guy likes Thunderbird, and one person I know still uses a weird > emacs mail client -- but it's all the same messages. Sure, sites like > Twitter publish their APIs, but there are still many more email clients > than there are clients for any particular forum tool. > > So thanks, but I'm sticking to email. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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