On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Anthony DiPierro wrote: > And plus you get archive searching built in (at least for the time > you've been subscribed to the list). Archive searching is trivial with site:blah.net syntax in Google, or a search engine like swish-e: http://swish-e.org/ > I know, it's a pain in the ass to do all this just to get subscribed > to a mailing list. Personally, I hate email - I think it's a horribly > designed technology that unfortunately a lot of people insist on using If it hurts, you're doing it wrong. Email is self-archiving and self-admining (Mailman), creates multiple redundant realtime-searchable archives at each user's end (mailboxes) uses your favore editor and MUA, supports encryption, authentication, anti-spam filtering, and is sufficiently quick yet not realtime for in-depth discussions (you won't find this on IM/IRC) -- and half a dozen other things I haven't mentioned. If you compare this to any other medium, you'll notice none of them have all of those features. There are media complementary to email -- nobody will prevent you from using them. > anyway. Posting to or-talk just happens to be one of those things > that you can't do any other way. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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