Hi , You made some good points, but please, avoid including statements that are plainly false: it lessens your arguments. I am specifically thinking of:
> - having to subscribe to a mailing list to even see the discussions Have you never heard about externals.io <http://externals.io/>? > - having to learn the specific, uncommon rules of replying: bottom posting, > ... Quoting relevant portion of previous messages and posting below them, is also a convention I’ve observed on other platforms, including github. > ... word wrapping, ... Really? I always thought that email clients are able to automatically wrap text in incoming messages. At least, I never manually wrap text when writing emails, and I have never received any complain that my emails are unreadable, If you have an issue with my reply, please complain. > Also popular emailing clients don't do any of that automatically, making > each reply tedious. Maybe *some* popular emailing clients make it difficult... Those that I have used so far (which are decently popular) have never had problems. Now to the point: > What are your thoughts? I prefer the mailing list for various reasons already mentioned by others (which I won’t repeat). —Claude
