Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Mailing lists are push media and they are one stop: the new posts come > to my own mail folders automatically. Their look and feel is always the > same: that of my mail program (or web mail operator). Browsing through > "your" web boards in the morning takes much, much more time than with > appropriately processes mailing lists. > > Moderation and s/n ration: If you read mailing lists as (pseudo) > newsgroups, which is of course the recommended way of access, every > reader has the most comfortable options for filtering and scoring. Web > boards have central, mailing lists individual moderation. You, the > reader, can filter authors, topics, threads or whatever you want or > don't want to read. That gives you autonomy and responsibility. > > The only real advantage of web boards is that they run in a browser and > everyone thinks they can use them. Processing and reading mailing lists > is much more comfortable, but obviously not anyone knows how to do that > anymore.
Seems to me that the mailing list is working just fine, despite a few people who complain far too much about the volume of traffic, or about the occasional tendency to irrelevant comments. They need to exercise a little more patience and tolerance. The situation is a classic case of "If it ain't broke don't fix it." Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
