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Also Exchange can do that; and even GMail to my knowledge. But it is
unpractical to push the responsability to the end-user, why would it need
to change then? It can just be how it is. I believe the idea is to improve
the situation, for example one way could be to advice users to properly
configure their mail clients with correct folders. I wonder, why do mailing
lists to which you subscribe automatically configure a folder structure?


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Joseph Crowell
<joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 5/25/2014 2:34 AM, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:
>
>> 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".
>>
>>
> Thunderbird allows a threaded view which works great for a threaded view
> and 'detects' mail server settings when you put in your email address. I
> filter mailing list mails from KDE, Qt and Sailfish in to their respective
> folders and then on each of those folders I [View > Sort By > Threaded] on
> each of those folders.
>
>
>  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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