<div dir="ltr">[Chris Angelico]<span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">With emails, you get your choice of tools. With web forum systems, you<br>get the forum host's choice of tools.</blockquote><div><br>There are many 3rd party tools for interacting with Reddit.<br>It's all just data behind an API. There's no reason you couldn't have a choice of tools for a forum system.<br>The biggest difference I see is that email APIs are more standardized.</div><div>Maybe we should push for an open standard for forum-style communication.<br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 5:03 PM Chris Angelico <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com">rosuav@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">On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM Abe Dillon <<a href="mailto:abedillon@gmail.com" target="_blank">abedillon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> [Steven D'Aprano]<br>
>><br>
>> The bottom line is that email can be sorted, filtered, shuffled, sliced<br>
>> and diced in an almost infinite number of ways. If your email client<br>
>> isn't good enough, blame the tool, not the technology.<br>
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> There's no reason a forum system couldn't accommodate sorting, filtering, shuffling, slicing and dicing.<br>
> It seems the only problem is the lack of tools.<br>
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With emails, you get your choice of tools. With web forum systems, you<br>
get the forum host's choice of tools.<br>
<br>
ChrisA<br>
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