On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan West wrote:
On 2015/07/12 04:58, Allan Irving wrote:
Hi all,
How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? I am of the
belief that it would be far better and also has more features than email.
http://slack.realm.io is an example of how easy it is for users to sign up -
much like Mailman offers a sign up screen.
Allan
I have to use email every day, therefore I prefer to get information
through email. The cool toy of the week (usenet, gopher, AOL, web, IRC,
MySpace Twitter, Facebook, whatever) comes and goes, but mailing list
messages always gets to me.
I don't have time to pull data (i.e. "follow") on any regular basis.
Unless you can push to me, I'll never hear you.
I operate the same way, but I recognize that others operate in different ways.
If we can set things up so that we have a web forum, mailing list, and NNTP feed
that all contain the same data and anything posted with one method is
distributed to all three, it would allow people to work however they choose to.
The mailing list is asynchronous and pushes data to the user
NNTP is better for disconnected operation (a common case I hear is people
working through messages on their commute where they don't have reliable network
access)
Web forums are better for people who don't want everything and just want to look
something up.
This is completely ignoring personal preferences.
David Lang
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