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| From: | David Santamauro |
| Subject: | Re: Discourse |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:02:59 +0000 |
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Since we’re airing grievances … The format of the response below is exactly what bothers me most about email lists and why I favor forums. The etiquette is to quote what you are responding to and remove everything else. Imagine 4 other people quoted different parts of
the original email, I now have 5 disjointed emails going off, perhaps, in 4 different directions. With a forum, topics can be split and merged retaining all parts of OP’s initial post/email and I can ignore the tangents I’m not interested in. Secondly, a forum only notifies you when you are part of a thread (either started or replied to one) which reduces the email traffic tremendously. You aren’t poked with an email every time someone has a thought or issue, rather, you instantiate
the interaction with the forum. Yes, I know digest option is available, but really, who wants to wade through an entire month’s worth of emails in one shot. Thirdly, from a practical workflow perspective, I would much rather scroll through a thread that is on one page than to click n-number of emails. Of course, having to click into multiple emails is due in large part to my first point. … and I’ll probably get yelled at for top-posting as well ;-) Bottom line: Count me in for migrating and I also have resources to host it if need be. From:
lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail.com@gnu.org <lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail.com@gnu.org> on behalf of Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
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