Re: [Gimp-user] You can follow the Discourse server in Thunderbird using RSS

[Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet gmail com>]

> Hi,
>
> you can use Discourse Gnome as a mailing list. The funny thing is, that
> using it as a mailing list, it requires to turn of the mailing list
> feature, not to enable it. Instead of enabling the mailing list feature,
> you need to choose the wanted tag, in your case it's probably "gimp".
>
> However, Discourse is not really a good mailing list, one of the
> countless reasons was mentioned by Brad Rogers: "The problem with
> discourse is when some ppl use it as a web forum and others use it as an
> ML.  Especially within the same thread.  It all descends into an
> unmanageable mess.   :-("
>
> For example, if we format a plain text mail, the forum will reformat it
> as a HTML mail, hence a lot of probably wanted spaces get lost.
>
> Here's a nice example, I recently made for a project in German.
>
> A simple simplified analog cam and a simple simplified digital cam [1].
>
> Without a lot of spaces removed by HTML and without an appropriate mono
> space font the ASCII graphics will become nonsense.
>
> This already becomes an issue, if you indent text like commands:
>
>    $ apt moo
>
> Let alone it's output.
>
>                     (__)
>                     (oo)
>               /------\/
>              / |    ||
>             *  /\---/\
>                ~~   ~~
>    ..."Have you mooed today?"...
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> [1]
>
>                       ┌───┐
>                      └┼┬──┼┐
>                Sucher ││  ││
>                      ┌┼┴┬─┼┘
>                       │ │ │
>                       │ │ ├┬┐
>                       │││ │││
>      Film und Vorhang │││ │ │ Objektiv mit Blende
>                       │││ │││
>                       │ │ ├┴┘
>                       │ │ │
>                       └─┴─┘
>                       ┌───┐
>                      └┼┬─┬┤
> Sucher mit Bildschirm ││ ││
>                      ┌┼┴─┴┤
>                       │   │
>                       │   ├┬┐
>                       ││  │││
>                Sensor ││  │ │ Objektiv mit Blende
>                       ││  │││
>                       │  │├┴┘
>                       │  ││ Speicherkarte
>                       └───┘
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What is "Ascii graphics"? Is it like emojis? 8-)

Seriously, text v HTML has been a problem since HTML email was introduced
along with top posting. Even if you tell people not to top-post, they don't
understand what that means and do it anyway. They send HTML formatted posts
to mailing lists because that's what their tools do.

BUT that is the way things are and no one is going to be able to turn back
the clock. Text only mailing lists are dead. (Not that Discord is
necessarily the right substitute for them). Sorry, but those who use
non-HTML mail and browse the Internet with Links are in a declining
minority. Let them use Gopher.

I'm not saying, don't try to do it. I'm saying that my estimate of the
possibility of success is very low.

Cliff


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