Agreed,

Mailing lists may be old school and no longer (if ever) hip, but they do have a 
lot going for them:

- Data is retained.
- Threads are maintained, and often self contained - save the last message in a 
thread to archive the entire discussion.
- Searchable archives (usually) both online, and stored locally.
- Low investment - you can ignore the list until you need it, search for 
applicable stuff, and post if you cannot find anything.

Not as quick turnaround as a chat platform for kibitzing and building 
community, but for actual knowledge retention, much better IMHO.

-- 
D

On October 20, 2016 at 1:19:53 PM, Andrus Adamchik (and...@objectstyle.org) 
wrote:

> I tried to follow the threads but soon got lost. I strongly suggest that such 
> technical issues MUST NOT be discussed on Slack but must be CARRIED OUT ON 
> THE MAILING LIST. Slack is not searchable, the threads are not followable, 
> Google does not index Slack discussions (as far as I know). And most of all 
> the discussion thread is not easily archived.  

Good assessment. A few thousands people at the Apache Software Foundation would 
likely concur. Mailing lists may feel old, but so far are the best way of 
communication for distributed volunteer communities.  

Andrus



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