Re: [Evolution] [OT] Evolution setup

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2020-08-20 at 22:24 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 21:40 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I use the Search function to find old posts that I remember dealing
> with some issue.

I was referring to new users coming to a new community.
You would hardly count as newcomer ;)



> > 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.
>
> Having seen HyperKitty deployed for the Fedora mailing lists, I dislike
> it for a number of reasons, the main one being that almost no-one
> remembers to quote context when replying. 

So that leads to the opposite way: people using a mailing list from a
forum-like interface, and using that as a forum... not quoting previous
mails.


> It may be possible to unify lists and web forums under one interface, but HK isn't it.

:(

If we end up having conflicts on the expectations on how people use a
mailing list vs how they use a forum, I'm afraid it may not be possible
at all.

Regards