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[christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch]

Hi Lauri

That is an interesting perspective: my feeling / experience was  
exactly the opposite: the chief weakness of mailing lists is that they  
have no usability whatsoever: I get just a flat list of unorganised  
mails swamping my inbox.

That of course may be down to the weaknesses of the web-mail client I  
use. I would welcome advice on "best-practice" tools for consuming  
mailing lists. I am (mostly) on OSX, sometimes on Windows and Linux.  
To quote Churchill "give us the tools and we will do the job".

 From my point-of-view, plus points for usability of forums over  
mailing lists are (in no special order):
* Stickies
* Sub forums
* Search
* Private Messages
* Edit previous posts (I could have used that today when I  
inadvertently clicked send too early)
* Thread based perspective
* Does not fill my mail file
* Visible metadata such as number of replies, date of most recent  
reply, number of posts etc.

Downsides of forums are:
* yet another user/password to manage (although a forum could be  
integrated into together.jolla.com
* yet another site to visit regularly (in addition to my mail client)
* karma: so distracting, I prefer the simple egalitarianism /  
meritocracy of mailing lists

Grüsse

Chris


Zitat von "Lauri Nurmi" <lanurmi at iki.fi>:

> 24.5.2014 13:56, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch kirjoitti:
>> My suggestion is that rather than splitting into multiple mailing  
>> lists, which does not really cure anything, you replace the mailing  
>> lists with a forum. I agree it would be crazy to have both.
>
> -1
>
> Is there any forum platform whose usability is not totally terrible  
> compared to mailing lists?
>
> First of all, to be able to keep track of who has replied to whose  
> post, and which post, I want to see the posts as a tree. But  
> offering such a tree view seems to be very rare on forums.
>
>
> LN
>
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