Re: GNOME discussions

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.