[digiKam-users] why do I rejoin Digikam MailMan list?

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Þann 18.1.2022 11:52, skrifaði Chris Green:
> Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk> wrote:
>> I agree, I like the mailing list and the fact that we get responses from
>> the developers on a regular basis. I also think that the mailing list
>> gets better requests for information than many forums because people
>> stop and think before posting a question because they know everyone on
>> the list will see their update.
>>
> I too am strongly in favour of retaining the mailing list.
> 
> I am on a lot (60 or more) software support and other lists.  If these
> were forums I simply wouldn't be able to handle them all.  With E-Mail
> everything arrives in one place (my E-Mail client) and I can manage
> them all using the same editor etc. etc.  If they were all forums I'd
> have to go from web site to web site and every one would have a
> different interface, a complete pain.
> 

+++n

Mail comes to me, is filtered and sits quietly in its relevant folder 
until I tend to it when time and mood allows for.
Forum is a place where something happens and I don't see unless *I go 
there* (some have decent RSS-streams, which help ease the pain).
Chat channels are for something happening in real-time, nice for instant 
replies, but everything there gets quickly lost.

Just a couple of days ago (in some other software) someone revived an 
old decent and still a bit active mailinglist which had lost out to some 
forum-site; perhaps 4-5 years ago a new generation of users decided that 
mailinglists were too archaic an that everyone would benefit from a 
forum-style environment. Well, as this someone pointed out, the forum is 
indeed active, but only with questions from new users - and almost no 
answers from veterans or developers. Sort of a QA without the A.

Best regards,
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