On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:16, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:23:43 +0100, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > wrote: > >The vast majority of people who > >are forced to use emails do so for work via a > >work-mediated/administered interface that tries to make it somewhat > >tolerable, like Outlook or Gmail. > > This must be the least accurate statement about Outlook that I have > ever read. Outlook does not have a single feature that makes email > more tolerable in any way. Au contraire. The feature called threading > is incompatible with the rest of the world and not even very useful in > an outlook-only environment, the search function finds everything but > the mail you're looking for, and Outlook's disability to quote > decently is notorious for having led to the whole world generating > only top-posting replies. > > Outlook is essentially responsible for making email so much worse > today than it was in the 1990s. > > Even Salsa's and github's praised way to communitate in an MR is > VASTLY inferior to a decently threading mail client like mutt or even > Thunderbird. > > I violently disagree with the rest of the message as well and am not > willing to spoil the rest of my day by replying in detail. I'd prefer > learning a bit more Slowfoxtrot later tonight.
Again, please understand that outside of the bubble of tech nerds of the 70s/80s, saying out loud phrases such as "The only right way to collaborate is reading and writing emails is in my terminal" means getting looked at like being a dinosaur just escaped from a museum. The rest of the universe just doesn't work like that, sorry. There's nothing wrong with being a dinosaur for an individual of course, we will all become one at some point, but optimizing for making dinosaurs happy from the simple perspective of demographics is a sure way for a project to slowly slide into irrelevance. The fact that the project membership has just about managed to remain flat while the tech sector absolutely exploded in size should send shivers down everyone's spines.
