On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > Mailing lists/Usenet newsgroups remain, as they've been for a very > long time, the solutions of choice for online discussions. Yes, I'm > aware of web forums: I've used hundreds of them. They suck. They ALL > suck, they just all suck differently.
I absolutely agree. And Mailman lists are both easy and powerful - I've deployed a number of them and subscribed to many MANY more - and play nicely with other internet standards. Instead of having to remember to check umpteen web-based forums, I just check my emails, which I do constantly anyway. Adding another mailing list costs me nothing; adding another forum costs me quite a bit of time. Ultimately it comes down to this: It would take an enormous amount of effort for something else to replicate the power of SMTP and/or NNTP, ergo nothing has achieved that. The open standards mean there are myriad clients available, and no new protocol or system can ever hope to compete with that. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
