Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:29:17 +0000 From: void <void@f-m.fm> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME discussions Message-ID: <Y2J%2BvRxEzX2WBmxy@openbsd.local> In-Reply-To: <1dea781f-c56a-30ad-4763-80720aa67475@freebsd.org> References: <c9a4ee2d3a9cb81d6131854027e4860e@ltcddata.plus.com> <15e8931aefdad251e9410889360925826b690d8a.camel@riseup.net> <b49e74b6-778b-f970-1e8e-2ad66e92f9a0@freebsd.org> <f273926c4e3b5c47f1cf46f4b8206346606afce0.camel@riseup.net> <3507971d-e9fc-0531-5a63-f22f13854476@freebsd.org> <bb8097f1bc0de737ea90412c90ee12421e7d8592.camel@riseup.net> <74cd46ec-0149-486d-8df1-37859b3b5453@app.fastmail.com> <1dea781f-c56a-30ad-4763-80720aa67475@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:52:31AM +0000, Graham Perrin wrote: >E-mail too often fails. > >You can't fix this <https://wiki.freebsd.org/GrahamPerrin/email#Broken_threading.2C_disconnections>, >for example. in that particular case, I *think* that has to do with server side attachment limits/policies. Looking at that thread, I see it's truncated in my mail client. But it's not limits set here or at my ISP (unless it is over 50MB encoded which is a typical ISP limit) The actual threading of an email conversation was (or at least I thought it was) an email client competency, exclusively. I still have a firm preference for email lists because of its relatively distributed nature and the bar to entry is a lot lower in terms of computing power. Many forums need for example javascript in order to work. Not everyone can have that enabled for a variety of reasons. In contrast, I think it's a safe bet that nearly everyone on the internet has an email address and access to an email client to read that email. Forums are nice to have in addition but IMO a bad idea for the sole repository of ideas and information in the context of a distributed project.
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