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Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]
Date 2021-08-09 11:10 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:33:08AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:26:25PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> >To be honest I don't think that mailing lists are a very good venue
> >for user support and I would these days prefer to direct people to a
> >Stack Overflow-like site.
> 
> I agree with you to some extent. I've wondered for a long while whether
> Mailman 3 and it's "HyperKitty" web front-end could be a solution.

If it bears any similarity to classic mailman, then colour me
unimpressed. My pet peeve with that one is that it cuts lists
into month sized slices (which makes kind of sense when you
want a month view, but puts you in an awkward place when you're
reading a thread which crosses one (or several!) month boundaries).

Don't get me wrong. Searchable archives "out there" are invaluable,
and whoever tries to unify mailing lists and fora is in my eyes
a hero -- but I fear the core problem is not a technical one.

Imagine just that "+1" thingie: how do those who participate via
mail get to "see" that? Doesn't that lead to both groups's "views
of the world" slowly diverging?

I think this happens at a very fundamental level: in the "mail
world": "protocol" [1] is separate from user agent. The ones
are using mutt, the others thunderbird or claws, a third one
(horrors!) some kind of web mail and a fourth one (even more
horrors!) outlook. This is known, so most of us know that the
MUA's visual appearance is not part of the message.

As opposed to a web application, where one visual appearance
is forced onto^H^H^H [2] offered to all participants; the
separation is not so clear.

Bridging both worlds takes more than a couple of smart algorithms.

All I have seen up to now is done as web design is done
these days: you start with a wireframe [3], then...

The result for me is "thanks, but no, thanks".

Cheers

[1] in a very general sense: alternatively: "data model"
[2] here you see my bias. I can't hide it.
[3] i.e. the starting point of the design is a visual
   one.

 - t

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                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-07 13:00 +0200
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                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-08-07 16:30 +0200
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                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-07 18:00 +0200
                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-07 23:30 +0200
                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-08 00:10 +0200
                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive  Debian Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-08 00:10 +0200
                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-08 08:00 +0200
                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive  Debian Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-08 09:10 +0200
                On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-08 11:40 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-08 17:30 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Brian Thompson <brian@hashvault.io> - 2021-08-08 18:00 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-08 21:00 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-08 22:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-08 23:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-08 23:40 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-09 02:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 00:00 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-10 01:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 03:00 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-10 03:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 03:40 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-11 03:20 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-11 13:50 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] SDA <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> - 2021-08-16 14:30 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-16 16:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] SDA <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> - 2021-08-17 17:00 +0200
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                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-17 21:30 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-08-17 21:40 +0200
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                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot  Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-18 13:10 +0200
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                Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user  participants ...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-19 09:50 +0200
                Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with  debian-user participants ...] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-19 10:40 +0200
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                Re: Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-19 10:40 +0200
                Flamebait [was: Wishing for an off-topic mail list ...] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-19 10:40 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot  Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-19 08:30 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-19 10:00 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-19 10:10 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-19 10:40 +0200
                Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants  (or most of them) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-19 10:20 +0200
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                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-09 07:30 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 00:20 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 01:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-10 01:30 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-08-10 03:40 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-09 09:40 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-09 11:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-08-09 17:10 +0200
                Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images  Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-09 17:50 +0200
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                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-07 17:30 +0200
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                Re: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-08-09 15:30 +0200
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