[Steven D'Aprano] > The bottom line is that email can be sorted, filtered, shuffled, sliced > and diced in an almost infinite number of ways. If your email client > isn't good enough, blame the tool, not the technology.
There's no reason a forum system couldn't accommodate sorting, filtering, shuffling, slicing and dicing. It seems the only problem is the lack of tools. [Steven D'Aprano] > The link was intended as a starting point for people to do their own > research, not a finishing point. But the main things from my perspective > are: > - stable web URLs for archives; > - better searching; > - a web interface that allows posting as well as reading posts. Thanks! I followed the link and was pretty lost by about half-way through the page. This clears things up! One thing I will say is that Reddit's search functionality has been pretty useless in my experience. It would be nice to have a useful search. On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:27 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 01:01:06PM -0600, Abe Dillon wrote: > > [...] > > 2) You can control, to some degree, what gets to the top of your feed. In > > an email list, it's based on who posted last which seems hardly an > > improvement. > > In any serious, non-toy mail client you can sort your mail by any of > Date, Size, Sender, Receiver, Thread or Subject line. > > More powerful mail clients should allow automatic filtering of messages > into subfolders, hiding or muting threads, and displaying or hiding > messages based on text searches. I've seen some that also allow you to > add your own custom topics, like "Work", "Personal" etc. > > The bottom line is that email can be sorted, filtered, shuffled, sliced > and diced in an almost infinite number of ways. If your email client > isn't good enough, blame the tool, not the technology. > > > [...] > > > In the future this list may be migrated to Mailman 3 which includes a > > > more modern web-forum-like interface as well as email. > > > > > > http://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html > > > > > > Can you summarize what mailman3 brings to the table? The docs aren't very > > clear and have a lot of preamble. > > The link was intended as a starting point for people to do their own > research, not a finishing point. But the main things from my perspective > are: > > - stable web URLs for archives; > - better searching; > - a web interface that allows posting as well as reading posts. > > > My guess is that most people who aren't happy with email will care about > the web interface, Hyperkitty. > > https://pypi.org/project/HyperKitty/ > > > https://duffy.fedorapeople.org/presentations/libreplanet%202014/Hyperkitty2.pdf > > > Demo: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/ > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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