Sorry, didn’t see the other threads about this. Sooner is better but I’m glad 
to know it’s at least planned.



Jon

> On Mar 20, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Jon Shier <j...@jonshier.com> wrote:
> 
>       So when is this transition happening? The sooner the better, as Mail 
> can’t really handle threads with large messages, like the recent evolution 
> threads about Foundation serialization and decoding. It just stops rendering 
> messages. Discourse would help a lot for these sorts of discussions.
> 
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Gavin Eadie via swift-evolution 
>> <swift-evolut...@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolut...@swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been participating on email lists and forums for forty-ish years and 
>> this dichotomy has been an ever present cloud hanging over that activity, 
>> sometimes, sadly, to the extent that the list-v-forum debate has swamped the 
>> desired topic of conversation .. I've seen it reach language-war proportions.
>> 
>> I'll express my ignorance before I go further .. I have not tracked the 
>> progress of recent (typically web-based) computer aided communications 
>> products so don't bite my head off .. what follows is a position I've held 
>> for a long time, a plea for a product that may well exist now.
>> 
>> I'm a big 'delayed binding' fan which, in this context, could mean 
>> separating the storage of the content from the display of the content.  
>> Surely there are stores that can be accessed by IMAP (for those that want 
>> the 'mailing list' experience and the Eudora interface), and by other 
>> methods SQL, REST, JSON (for those who want a more expressive web-app 
>> experience)?
>> 
>> This would seem to be in the same spirit of Markdown .. expressive when 
>> rendered, but quite readable in its raw form.
>> 
>> I'm sure you get the idea .. doesn't any such thing exist?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Lane Schwartz via swift-users 
>> <swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a plan to enable an integrated mailing list functionality so that 
>> those of us who prefer that modality can continue to participate via email? 
>> Other forum software that I've been asked to use in the past (sorry, I can't 
>> remember the name) had this functionality, and it made a huge difference for 
>> me.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Ted kremenek via swift-users 
>> <swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> [...] Specifically, there are those who really value using email for 
>> participation on swift-evolution and swift-users, and the goal is to get the 
>> forum setup to allow those people to continue to feel effective when using 
>> email for discussions on these "lists".
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