Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread hiro
if you want filtering and automatic ordering i can only repeat: use facebook. if you want to retain your power, try to use the most general tools possible to achieve exactly the filtering and ordering that you need. we all already did that, but you say a standard (that says nothing about it's impl

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:01:22 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: > Well, I tried. I have submitted a bug report to > the mailing list. I will stick with the mailing list. > It is not too horrible when this is the only highly > active mailing I am currently subscribed to. You might also try out a mail cl

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:56:30 +0100 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Long story short -- if you favour NNTP use gmane. Well, I tried. I have submitted a bug report to the mailing list. I will stick with the mailing list. It is not too horrible when this is the only highly active mailing I am currently sub

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Long story short -- if you favour NNTP use gmane. We don't intend to move away from our mailing list approach. Also bare in mind that we have a better mailing list archiving tool on our wishlist for quite some time. Perhaps in the near future someone will address this -- then it might be possible

Mailing lists suck less. (was Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.)

2015-12-13 Thread stanio
mailing lists rock as much as it gets in the field. and as a side note: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-ello-real-anti-facebook-good-old-email/ cheers --s

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread Pickfire
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 03:26:38AM +0100, hiro wrote: i don't care as much about communication as i care about lowering the noise. You are polluting the mailing list by making noise currently. ☺ -- _ < Do what you like, like what you do. > --

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread hiro
i don't care as much about communication as i care about lowering the noise.

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread Agathoklis D. Chatzimanikas
On Sat, Dec 12, at 10:43 Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Talking to people in the forest is the best approach, trust me. Talking to the forest doesn't always helps to achieve proper communication, trust me, I live in a forest. > On 11 December 2015 at 21:09, Mattias Andrée wrote: > > Mailing lists also

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread Martti Kühne
We could write our own time-diluted message transmission protocol. cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread hiro
it's cold in the forest

Re: [dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-12 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 11 December 2015 at 21:09, Mattias Andrée wrote: > The absolutely works thing with free software development > is all those mailing lists clobbering your inbox. > > Mailing lists also adds another complexity on top of an > already horridly sucking group of protocols. Talking to people in the f

[dev] Mailing lists sucks.

2015-12-11 Thread Mattias Andrée
The absolutely works thing with free software development is all those mailing lists clobbering your inbox. Mailing lists also adds another complexity on top of an already horridly sucking group of protocols. I suggest switching to NNTP (which most e-mail clients support, and does not suck just a