Re: [Evolution] [OT] Evolution setup

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 01:33 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> 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 ;)

I phrased that wrong. What I meant was that I occasionally search for
issues which have been dealt with (not necessarily by me).

> > > 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.

Exactly.

> > 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.

That's my current thinking until proved otherwise.

poc