From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:35:16 -0400
Date: 2013-04-05T04:35:16-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854nfll6ij.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lybo9uhcre.fsf@pushface.org
Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>
>> What features of net news are not replaced by mailing lists?
>
> The ability to come in after a conversation has finished and review
> it.
That's what archives are for.
>None of the (free) mailing list archives I've seen comes close to
> News in general usability.
Why? What specifically is missing from a Mailman archive?
The only news archive I know about is Google. That keeps changing its
interface, but it seems comparable to the web interface to a Mailman
archive to me.
> I experienced one project where the team embraced a local news service,
> with great success, and another larger one where they had senior people
> who were unable to cope with News. To be fair, I don't think they could
> have coped with a mailing list either; just endless branching chains of
> top-quoted waffling mail, coupled with inability to use ReplyAll.
So this anecdote is not about news vs email, but about computer-literate vs
not.
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-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-31 10:11 Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-09-01 16:25 ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 11:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-09-01 7:31 ` stefan-lucks
2012-09-02 11:23 ` Stephen Leake
2012-09-06 6:04 ` Jerry van Dijk
2012-09-06 15:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-09-07 9:45 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-03 12:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-04 8:28 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-08 9:37 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-09 3:14 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-09 7:53 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-10 6:19 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-10 7:55 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-12 16:30 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-13 12:20 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-14 1:23 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-10-23 9:30 ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:27 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-23 21:56 ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:31 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-24 10:13 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-24 13:06 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-03-24 20:18 ` Gour
2013-03-24 22:34 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-25 7:21 ` Gour
2013-03-26 20:27 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-26 21:24 ` Gour
2013-03-29 22:02 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-30 5:54 ` Gour
2013-03-31 11:39 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-31 21:01 ` Gour
2013-04-02 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-02 13:20 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-04-04 8:10 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-04 9:21 ` Simon Wright
2013-04-05 8:35 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2013-04-06 7:43 ` Simon Wright
2013-04-04 9:38 ` Gour
2013-04-05 8:37 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-06 3:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-04-06 7:04 ` Gour
2013-04-08 7:43 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-08 8:53 ` Gour
2013-04-10 22:39 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-11 4:31 ` Gour
2013-04-12 10:56 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-12 12:07 ` Gour
2013-04-12 13:03 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-12 13:09 ` Gour
2013-04-07 2:34 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-04-10 22:38 ` Stephen Leake
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