<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:16 PM Donald Stufft <a href="http://mailto:donald@stufft.io">donald@stufft.io</a> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p><div class="markdown-here-exclude"><p></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think one of the big trade offs here, is that the traditional mailing list can work very well if everyone involved takes the time to develop a custom tool chain that fits their own workflow perfectly and if they spend the time learning the deficiency of the systems to ensure they correctly work around them. The web forum thing can theoretically achieve much less of a theoretical “maximum” for productivity, but it typically means that you can bring productivity gains to those who can’t or won’t spend time maintaining a custom mailing stack.<br>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">This is an excellent point, and is similar to one that was made on a similar discussion at <a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-January/038210.html">the start of the year</a>. That thread focused more on <a href="https://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</a> as a potential alternative to the mailing list for python-ideas, but a lot of the arguments being made here on both sides are a repetition of what was discussed there (and probably of what has been discussed several times over the course of many years).</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Nick</p>
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