Re: OT: How are you viewing these messages?
Re: OT: How are you viewing these messages?
- Subject: Re: OT: How are you viewing these messages?
- From: David Masover <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:43:57 -0500
Reed Mangino wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Reed Mangino wrote:
Thanks for the reply Finaly - I am using Mail.app (with rules) - I
just didn't know if other people where doing it a different way...
Doing what? Answers depend on what you mean by "managing the messages."
I guess my *real* question then is: Why did Apple choose to use mailing
lists instead of usenet/forums/google groups?
Because they are really the same thing, functionally, as far as I can
tell. What are you missing?
Because they're easy to set up and maintain.
Because many open-source communities also use mailing lists.
Practically all Linux kernel development is done with a mailing list.
Because it's far easier to join a mailing list, versus joining a forum.
Most forums require you to have an email address anyway.
It also makes it easy to have cross-list discussions -- for instance, if
anyone remembers the truly massive "Silent semantic changes in Reiser4"
thread, that was on the Linux kernel development list, but also the
ReiserFS list. This is something I don't think forums do very well --
you can link between discussions, but you can't really have the same
discussion in two separate communities.
Since it uses email, any filters I apply to email -- spam filters,
sorting to folders, sorting by thread -- all of that is entirely under
my control. On a forum especially, you're limited to what control the
forum site gives you.
It's also a true push protocol, unlike (say) RSS, not that it matters so
much anymore.
What is wrong with "carrying a ton of email around", especially if you
could just use a gmail account for it? I doubt the archives get that
big. And what's wrong with searching through a ton of stuff at Apple's
site? That's exactly what you'd be doing with forums or groups anyway.
I haven't permanently deleted any email (even spam) for about a year,
and my entire mailbox at this site is less than half a gig.
Disclaimer: As the recent discussion says, Apple is a secretive
company, and I really have no clue why Apple does anything the way they
do. This is just an educated guess.
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