On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Warner wrote:
To be fair, Slack would replace IRC if anything. The mailing list serves as a separate and complementary purpose. I suspect Allan may not have been aware of or participated on the IRC channel.
While I'd love to share your optimism and generosity of spirit, Allan Irving (allanirv...@allanirving.co.uk, to be clear about our Allans), made it very clear from his first post onwards that what he was suggesting was
replacing the mailing lists with Slack.
Apples, oranges -- all that.
Well, yes -- you state something obvious to everybody except the originator of the thread... Functionally I think we're all still waiting for an answer about how Slack is better than mailing lists in any way other than "it's cooler" for the use case that mailing lists solve. If the question was "is Slack better than IRC", that would at least be more like comparing apples to rosehips, rather than apples to oranges. cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
