<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm kinda new to those mailing lists and those are the only ones I ever subscribed so I'm a bit in the audience you're targeting James.</div><div><br></div><div>What I think is bad using mailing list it's the absence of votes. I'd often like to just hit a "+1" button for some mails just to say to the author I'm with him and I think s.he's ideas are great. In some of the recent threads, some of the ideas I agreed with were just smashed by others. I couldn't give my two cents and the debate juste ended and I couldn't say the author I was behind <a href="http://him.er">him.er</a>. Another thing I think is not good is the absence of little chit-chat and editing. Actually, a lot of emails are just explanations of what the authors meant. That's pretty spammy and a few messages exchanged + editing would correct this spammy thing.</div><div><br></div><div>In another hand, I think mailing lists are great to avoid short and useless messages. There's no spammy message like "I'm ok" which could be replaced by just a "+1" button. It forces us using LBYL principle (@poke Robert) and it (imho) better fills the needs of such discussions.</div><div><br></div><div>As you may have get it, I'd rather a forum like thing rather than mailing lists but mailings lists are great.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 1 févr. 2019 à 18:22, Robert Vanden Eynde <<a href="mailto:robertve92@gmail.com">robertve92@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>That's a nice question !</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The main thing is "is this list more EmailLike or MessengerLike"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When I speak on Messenger (or any instantaneous conversation software) I send a lot of very small messages, like "+1", it's interactive, I'm expecting a short answer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If I say something stupid, I undo, if I can't undo because the delay of my client is done, I send another message beginning with "Oops" or something obvious. It's the EAFP (Easier to ask for forgiveness than Permission) style.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The point is "looking ar my first few words, people understand the message"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When I speak on TraditionalDifferedEmail, I'm more like LBYL (Look before you Leap), I write a long, but structured message, such that people see first the structure, (intro, body, conclusion), and look in the message if they want.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, 17:40 James Lu <<a href="mailto:jamtlu@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamtlu@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A lot of the traffic on this email list is people saying “I don’t understand” or “that’s not what I meant” or trying to re-explain. A lot of “-1”s are really “I don’t see the usefulness of this”.<br>
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