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Not for nothin', but if Matt, Carolyn, Adam and I all *vehemently
agree* on something it is EITHER:

- - End of days. Nice knowin' y'all.
- - The right thing to do.

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On 7/12/2015 10:05 AM, Carolyn Rowland wrote:
> I second slack as an irc replacement. You can link slack to irc so
> you don't have to deal with yet another interface.
> 
> I don't see it as a replacement for email though.
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> Sent using a mouse-sized keyboard with feigned autocorrect
> intelligence.
> 
> On Jul 12, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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.
>> 
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