[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 01:01:06PM -0600, Abe Dillon wrote:

[...]
> 2) You can control, to some degree, what gets to the top of your feed. In
> an email list, it's based on who posted last which seems hardly an
> improvement.

In any serious, non-toy mail client you can sort your mail by any of 
Date, Size, Sender, Receiver, Thread or Subject line.

More powerful mail clients should allow automatic filtering of messages 
into subfolders, hiding or muting threads, and displaying or hiding 
messages based on text searches. I've seen some that also allow you to 
add your own custom topics, like "Work", "Personal" etc.

The bottom line is that email can be sorted, filtered, shuffled, sliced 
and diced in an almost infinite number of ways. If your email client 
isn't good enough, blame the tool, not the technology.


[...]
> > In the future this list may be migrated to Mailman 3 which includes a
> > more modern web-forum-like interface as well as email.
> > 
> > http://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html
> 
> 
> Can you summarize what mailman3 brings to the table? The docs aren't very
> clear and have a lot of preamble.

The link was intended as a starting point for people to do their own 
research, not a finishing point. But the main things from my perspective 
are:

- stable web URLs for archives;
- better searching;
- a web interface that allows posting as well as reading posts.


My guess is that most people who aren't happy with email will care about 
the web interface, Hyperkitty.

https://pypi.org/project/HyperKitty/

https://duffy.fedorapeople.org/presentations/libreplanet%202014/Hyperkitty2.pdf


Demo: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/


-- 
Steve