-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I just want to chime in, "me too".
- - Slack is not in any way a good replacement for the e-mail mailing list s - - Slack is a *PHENOMENAL* replacement for the IRC channels on Freenode. Why? - -- Better interface that appeals to many/most - -- IRC interface (luddites who don't want to change can just connect to the slack server via the IRC protocol) - -- It can be "ours", as opposed to us just sitting on a large multi-community thing. (Yes, slack has a number of communities but they are isolated from each other). This means... no more goddamned spambots! On 7/12/2015 9:53 AM, Matt Simmons wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list > provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ 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/ > - -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVonTVAAoJEGYbOtbYKrvQxbcP/2arPEykLwRizUZaDEZes0lz G+geAstcLv6btO/jse4KHKyhf2om4QMLLJ4ouX02CHjZyu26W50abFCFXGf0G+/8 ic8YjJrA7jqqgPAMwkoesD+kC8nJPv/iP/MYJeoBZanRM5lIAoJjU855l93nmGYz 6wJXxY67+shXrt5ogUAPYg0PHP71T0afyouOetUhE5pCYYzTPWMUDtnWOVDU+d2k C+qL7aLzZ+qLcuzK4hePAuQ8VABd3FqoYQBsYtyJW2jn8FkwxFiwyoL1yR+3lttg yvxyD0dgALvsFIPcexIzrjnLA1JtmQKxPbzJfOC7dEQ3xH4+zzRgotweRx/8QjMZ 3cCEe3saWVGssD8e6vItHOb1GzMQu8Zq40kqaiT4B2zBMQInG+VcZMsIaN9FKdJv ELI1sTE3kaxX1L+uGLNe2hzXNa6DjYmuRyAXsLHCn6lL6VVwGVcpVdh+t7f7/EjO p8uZp1zm/N6KLaCbKFWV3n0QodsKwCB8ipbwzNe7MCOMDR38LcBGey1pfocff+X7 OFNqg2oP3U91l21ZAnUP2ZlCFSxIP874rOxZdchjV9/v63qnlKqghYMUtuLC0+ke fSUCrXpJ8aGscV9KsCxY1SzDF9w8V6CXcmnkRFLsEbPscAd9XeCnQUF87V31YAq+ rWNxzwnXLKbQvJIisJlj =VZw6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
