We are debating this as an alternative to a mailing list. Don’t get ahead of 
yourself. As an alternative, I think it works. However, you can disagree. 
Please don’t male assumptions regarding ‘cool kids; or whatever you want to 
presume. That really isn’t the case. However, if you can’t see how mailing 
lists are more insecure than Slack - then what does that say about your career?

How about you create what you want regarding x, y and z as opposed to slating 
something that DOES perform the function of what this mailing list is in a 
better way?

Seeing as you are making assumptions let me I shall assume that you are a 
dinosaur that would rather use email over something else. Now, please - you 
should know the pitfalls of email. I did not say Slack was x, y or z. I just 
see it as a better alternative. 

FWIW: Slack does scale. + if it’s working for corporations, what makes this 
mailing list so unique or different that it can’t help it along the way?

Making assumptions never ends well - as you have just evidenced. 



> On 12 Jul 2015, at 21:41, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Allan Irving <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You can stay in the dark ages but some of us are thinking ahead. Given the 
> responses, it is clear to me that moving on into the modern century is the 
> way forward.
> 
> Slack is only forward in "coolness", not in security, privacy, or anything 
> else important. If we are to move forward, can we have something that is 
> actually *forward* instead of just another badly done insecure webapp that 
> cool kids think is The Future because it is Shiny and who cares about whether 
> it (a) works (b) scales (c) is secure (d) is private?
> 
> -- 
> brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>                              
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> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        http://sinenomine.net 
> <http://sinenomine.net/>
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