Re: [Evolution] [OT] Evolution setup

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 19:09 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Actually I don't subscribe to the cult of the cool. But the trouble
> > with email for this sort of use is it only really works if you are
> > following all the threads all the time. 
> > It arrives willy nilly warts and all, which is fine if you are
> > continuously actively involved.
> I don't understand this - all the forum posts, sorry not-a-forum
> posts, arrive willy nilly the same as mail does?

Willy-Nilly as in "real time" or "asynchronously". :)

> Or are you saying you don't use the mail reader to sort and thread
> your mail. 

No, I read the mail in my INBOX.  Otherwise, what is the point?

> > as I was saying again having hit [enter], the beauty of a forum is
> > that it puts you the user in control of what you see and when you
> > see it. You can ignore threads, or whole categories/sub-forums that
> > don't interest you, you can be notified when there is something for
> > you in particular, you can go away for a month and easily catch up
> > when you get back, you can easily browse through previous topics
> > that might answer your question, and so on.
> And why can't you do that with mail?  I have mailboxes with 10s of
> thousands of unread mails in them that I am successfully ignoring.

I have mailboxes with nearly 200,000 messages!

> > Different solutions for different folk, neither is right or wrong.
> > For me email is good for one to one conversation and ok for
> > broadcast one to many information, but pretty rubbish for many to
> > many discussion/sharing.
> Strangely the mailing list format seems to have worked OK for this
> listfor 20 years ...

+1,000

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