On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:05 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.
Minor correction: Multiple NNTP clients appear to be available for most operating systems and I would suggest that the best ones are actually better at handling multiple threaded conversations than many (most?) email clients. The only real problem that I would see is how to set things up so that the groups didn't "leak" into the general USENET system and become easily accessible to the population who live there. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ 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/
