<div dir="ltr">Errata-corridge : Wy do mailing lists to which you subscribe NOT automatically configure a folder structure?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Tone Kastlunger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:users.giulietta@gmail.com" target="_blank">users.giulietta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?<br>
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On 5/25/2014 2:34 AM, <a href="mailto:christopher.lamb@thurweb.ch" target="_blank">christopher.lamb@thurweb.ch</a> wrote:<br>
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Hi Lauri<br>
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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.<br>
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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".<br>
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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.<div>
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>From my point-of-view, plus points for usability of forums over mailing lists are (in no special order):<br>
* Stickies<br>
* Sub forums<br>
* Search<br>
* Private Messages<br>
* Edit previous posts (I could have used that today when I inadvertently clicked send too early)<br>
* Thread based perspective<br>
* Does not fill my mail file<br>
* Visible metadata such as number of replies, date of most recent reply, number of posts etc.<br>
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Downsides of forums are:<br>
* yet another user/password to manage (although a forum could be integrated into <a href="http://together.jolla.com" target="_blank">together.jolla.com</a><br>
* yet another site to visit regularly (in addition to my mail client)<br>
* karma: so distracting, I prefer the simple egalitarianism / meritocracy of mailing lists<br>
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Grüsse<br>
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Chris<br>
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Zitat von "Lauri Nurmi" <<a href="mailto:lanurmi@iki.fi" target="_blank">lanurmi@iki.fi</a>>:<br>
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24.5.2014 13:56, <a href="mailto:christopher.lamb@thurweb.ch" target="_blank">christopher.lamb@thurweb.ch</a> kirjoitti:<br>
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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.<br>
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Is there any forum platform whose usability is not totally terrible compared to mailing lists?<br>
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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.<br>
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LN<br>
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