Re: [Evolution] [OT] Evolution setup

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2020-08-18 at 17:57 +0100, rogercreagh wrote:
> 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, 

A good email client would allow you to do that.
(wait, where's that feature in evolution?)

> or whole categories/sub-forums that don't interest you,

mailman does support multiple categories. Although I don't think I have
ever seen that in use.


> you can be notified when there is something for you in particular, 

You could set a filter to "notify" you when whatever conditions arise.
I agree the forum presets are generally better, since few people would
set that up, though.

> you can go away for a month and easily catch up when you get back,

You can go away for a month, and read the pending list mail when you get
back (or not).
You might not be keen on replying to an old mail a month later, but it's
the same issue as replying to an old forum thread.


> you can easily browse through previous topics that might answer your
> question, and so on.

And do people really do that? It also depends on what is considered
"easily", too.


> Oh yes, and if you are a diehard non-web person you can even have all
> posts delivered to your inbox as email and continue to drink from the
> firehose.


It depends a lot on communities. Some communities are forum-fans, while
other are fans or mailing lists. There are some communities which died
after moving from a mailing list format to a forum (while others
didn't).

In general, I would be very wary of changing the status-quo.


You do have some good points, though.
The "mailing lists are hard to browse" would probably be solved with
mailman3's hyperkitty, which gives a forum-feel to the archives.
I don't like that it tries to add things like "voting", though, as that
escapes the role of a mailing list.

Regards