Errata-corridge : Wy do mailing lists to which you subscribe NOT automatically configure a folder structure?
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Tone Kastlunger <users.giulie...@gmail.com > wrote: > Also Exchange can do that; and even GMail to my knowledge. But it is > unpractical to push the responsability to the end-user, why would it need > to change then? It can just be how it is. I believe the idea is to improve > the situation, for example one way could be to advice users to properly > configure their mail clients with correct folders. I wonder, why do mailing > lists to which you subscribe automatically configure a folder structure? > > > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Joseph Crowell < > joseph.w.crow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 5/25/2014 2:34 AM, christopher.l...@thurweb.ch wrote: >> >>> Hi Lauri >>> >>> That is an interesting perspective: my feeling / experience was exactly >>> the opposite: the chief weakness of mailing lists is that they have no >>> usability whatsoever: I get just a flat list of unorganised mails swamping >>> my inbox. >>> >>> That of course may be down to the weaknesses of the web-mail client I >>> use. I would welcome advice on "best-practice" tools for consuming mailing >>> lists. I am (mostly) on OSX, sometimes on Windows and Linux. To quote >>> Churchill "give us the tools and we will do the job". >>> >>> >> Thunderbird allows a threaded view which works great for a threaded view >> and 'detects' mail server settings when you put in your email address. I >> filter mailing list mails from KDE, Qt and Sailfish in to their respective >> folders and then on each of those folders I [View > Sort By > Threaded] on >> each of those folders. >> >> >> From my point-of-view, plus points for usability of forums over mailing >>> lists are (in no special order): >>> * Stickies >>> * Sub forums >>> * Search >>> * Private Messages >>> * Edit previous posts (I could have used that today when I inadvertently >>> clicked send too early) >>> * Thread based perspective >>> * Does not fill my mail file >>> * Visible metadata such as number of replies, date of most recent reply, >>> number of posts etc. >>> >>> Downsides of forums are: >>> * yet another user/password to manage (although a forum could be >>> integrated into together.jolla.com >>> * yet another site to visit regularly (in addition to my mail client) >>> * karma: so distracting, I prefer the simple egalitarianism / >>> meritocracy of mailing lists >>> >>> Grüsse >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> Zitat von "Lauri Nurmi" <lanu...@iki.fi>: >>> >>> 24.5.2014 13:56, christopher.l...@thurweb.ch kirjoitti: >>>> >>>>> My suggestion is that rather than splitting into multiple mailing >>>>> lists, which does not really cure anything, you replace the mailing lists >>>>> with a forum. I agree it would be crazy to have both. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -1 >>>> >>>> Is there any forum platform whose usability is not totally terrible >>>> compared to mailing lists? >>>> >>>> First of all, to be able to keep track of who has replied to whose >>>> post, and which post, I want to see the posts as a tree. But offering such >>>> a tree view seems to be very rare on forums. >>>> >>>> >>>> LN >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. >>>> sailfishos.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. >>> sailfishos.org >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. >> sailfishos.org >> > >
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