I hate mailing lists

[William M. Quarles]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 22:03:55 PM -0400, William M. Quarles
> (walrus at bellsouth.net) wrote:
>  
> 
>>"Free software is mainly developed on mailing lists. Mailing lists
>>have many advantages over other forms of communication, but they
>>have two weaknesses: It's difficult to follow discussions in a
>>sensible way, and mailing list archives (when they exist) have a
>>tendency to disappear over time.
>>
>>"Several mailing list archives exist, but these are all hidden under
>>a web interface. Reading mail that way is not convenient. Reading
>>mail as if it were news is convenient. "
>>
> 
> 
> I don't know about mailing list archives disappearing over time. The
> other "weakness", however, is in idiot mail clients and misguided
> users, not in mailing lists. Any decent mail client *supports*
> threading, so it makes possible to "to follow discussions in a
> sensible way".
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Marco F.
> 

Except the threads are reassembled based on the author leaving the 
previous message quoted.  Newsgroups actually keep track of which 
message is in reply to which other message.

Peace,
William