On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:49:49AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:40 AM Fulko Hew <fulko.hew(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu>
> wrote:
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> While I'm not a contributor to these lists, I do follow them
> and have so for probably 20 years now. Like Jason, I have had
> other projects move away from mailing lists, and that now means
> I have to make a concious effort to 'poll' their system, rather
> than having a push notification. Needless to say, I don't follow
> them any more, and I don't know what's happening there.
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> Push means I find out whenever something happens.
> If nothing happens... then that's OK with me, I'm not bothered.
> But to be constantly polling for 'is there anything new... is there
> anything new'
> (whether there is or not), is just plain inefficient.
>
> I hope that doesn't happen to Fedora too.
>
> [Just my 2 cents worth.]
>
> Again, especially for a user of gmail, there is mailing list mode. People
keep saying it isn't sufficient or it
doesn't work. I've been using it for 3 days and looks and acts like a
normal mailing list.
How do I start a thread on Discourse from email? We should start this discussion over
there so we can experience it ourselves.