On Sat, May 22, 2004 22:03:55 PM -0400, William M. Quarles (walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > "Free software is mainly developed on mailing lists. Mailing lists > have many advantages over other forms of communication, but they > have two weaknesses: It's difficult to follow discussions in a > sensible way, and mailing list archives (when they exist) have a > tendency to disappear over time. > > "Several mailing list archives exist, but these are all hidden under > a web interface. Reading mail that way is not convenient. Reading > mail as if it were news is convenient. " > I don't know about mailing list archives disappearing over time. The other "weakness", however, is in idiot mail clients and misguided users, not in mailing lists. Any decent mail client *supports* threading, so it makes possible to "to follow discussions in a sensible way". Ciao, Marco F. -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Be the change you want to see in the world - Gandhi
