On 2/1/2019 3:30 AM, R. Diez via Mailman-Users wrote:
This is becoming tiresome...
Indeed. Except I'd substitute the second-person pronoun for the third...
Mailman has a long page with settings like digest mode, stop delivery
(holiday mode), and many, many more. Other communication platforms
like Google Group allow you to manage subscriptions per topic. How
about some new settings like this:
[ x ] Automatically follow topics/subjects/threads I have
participated in.
What you are asking for is not impossible but it is not a SMOP. It
will require a significant effort on the part of volunteer developers
and result in a significant increase in the size of the package, with
a concomitant increase in volunteer support and administration effort.
And, as has been pointed out previously in this discussion, there is a
difference between mailing lists and web forums or bulletin boards...
There is no such difference. It is all in your head.
You have been provided several patient, thoughtful, and perfectly
clear explanations that there _is_ a difference between a listserver
and a forum/BB, starting with the distinction between a "push"
interface and a "pull" one.
There are
communication platforms that have both interfaces, e-mail and web.
Yes, but they are not as lithe or lissome as Mailman, and more
difficult to administer.
Other systems can do it. I understand that you do not want to
implement it yourself in Mailman, but why oppose the idea?
One word: spork.
There are plenty of web forum offerings, many free, that have some
sort of email access, usually as an afterthought. As such, they are
the software equivalent of a spoon into which someone cut notches,
making it a lousy fork and a poor spoon.
I, for one, have no time to waste logging into dozens of fora looking
for postings of interest. Such postings are emailed to me, in the
same way that notes to all of my email accounts are. My MUA does the
spam-filtering, searching, sorting, filing, display, and composition
functions. I need only that one (programmable) tool to handle all my
inputs.
-Chip-
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