Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

  • o11c@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    The problem with mailing lists is that no mailing list provider ever supports "subscribe to this message tree".

    As a result, either you get constant spam, or you don't get half the replies.

    • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.