Bah. Tablet client defaults to reply, not reply to all...
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 08:10, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 03:25, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 2:07 PM Stephen J. Turnbull
<turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
There's a big difference, though. Email users choose their own email
clients. If you choose GMail, well, "sorry, you chose GMail." (I
understand that avoiding GMail on Apple handhelds is kinda hard,
AppleMail sucking amazingly and all. But writing technical discussion
on a phone is strictly for disasters, anyway, at least IME.)
That's half of my point (the distinction between "suboptimal clients"
and "suboptimal services"), but the other half is that every time
someone says "sorry, you chose Gmail", there's a lengthy discussion
that ends up NOT showcasing any sort of perfect alternative - and
often not even any *better* alternatives. Have you ever actually
convinced someone to move off Gmail onto some other client?
As someone who uses gmail (the web interface) this is a good point. When
people say that there are all sorts of better alternative clients, no-one
has ever been able to offer one that actually satisfies my specific
requirements. Having said that, *in spite of having to use gmail* I still
strongly prefer mailing lists.
I can’t easily articulate why, but certainly one aspect of it is the fact
that there is no universally accepted alternative that gets proposed. One
time it’s discourse, then it’s github, then something else I’ve never heard
of... And every other project that gets quoted as having “successfully
switched” seems to use something different. So in my mind the question
isn’t about mail or a particular alternative (that I can look at and form
an opinion about over time, as these discussions reoccur) but rather about
mail or “not mail” with an ever changing alternative that I have to
consider and re-assess from scratch each time.
For me, mail wins as the stable alternative. And for something I spend so
much time on, stability is essential.
Paul
Paul Moore