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Tone Kastlunger users.giulietta at gmail.com
Sun May 25 08:57:53 UTC 2014


Errata-corridge : Wy do mailing lists to which you subscribe NOT
automatically configure a folder structure?


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Tone Kastlunger <users.giulietta at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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