[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-11 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Mattias Andrée writes: > The absolutely works thing with free software development > is all those mailing lists clobbering your inbox. > > Mailing lists also adds another complexity on top of an > already horridly sucking group of protocols. > > I suggest switching to NNTP (which most e-mail clie

[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:51:23 +0100 hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > yes. use IRC then. > > Not quite the same thing. Irrelevant.

[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Black Rider
El Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:13:06 +0100, hiro escribió: > Anyways, I agree with you that mail isn't perfect, I don't know what big > difference NNTP makes though. I prefer NNTP for the following reasons: You don't have to send subscribe or unsubscribe messages. If you want to access the archives, yo

[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Black Rider
El Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:35:27 +0100, FRIGN escribió: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:29:02 + (UTC) > No, it's proof that you don't understand how to deal with IMAP. And > regarding size: My _entire_ suckless inbox which reaches back nearly two > years is only 68M, which is a joke. > I'm sure Google d

[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Black Rider
El Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:50:50 +0100, hiro escribió: > if your inbox is too small just use gmail for your mailing lists. i feel > like it's just a different branding, both gmail and gmane do the same > job to me. It is not as much of a problem of inbox size as it is of having to deal with a lot of

[dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Mattias Andrée
One disadvantage with with NNTP is that the current standard tools for sending packages are for e-mail and mailing lists. Tools for NNTP has too be added. Of course, you can always send patches manually. On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 13:23:27 + (UTC) Black Rider wrote: > El Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:35:27

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-11 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:12:47 +0100 Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Mattias Andrée writes: > > > The absolutely works thing with free software > > development is all those mailing lists clobbering your > > inbox. > > > > Mailing lists also adds another complexity on top of an > > already horridly

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread hiro
yes. use IRC then.

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread hiro
Anyways, I agree with you that mail isn't perfect, I don't know what big difference NNTP makes though.

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:29:02 + (UTC) Black Rider wrote: > In a regular mailing list, you are sent 100% of the traffic the mailing > list gets. That is bad news for your INBOX storage limits. You can use > smart filtering and scheduled INBOX cleanup, but the fact you are using > tools for s

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread hiro
if your inbox is too small just use gmail for your mailing lists. i feel like it's just a different branding, both gmail and gmane do the same job to me.

Re: [dev] Re: Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread hiro
> It is interesting to note that, often, when you don't like a certain tool > as much as other person, the other person will automatically tell you > that you don't know how to use it. we here at suckless are marginal enough not to care about the statistical analysis you made with stupid people ar