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On 01/18/2015 07:34 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
> Now I'm curious: Does anybody here really like the use of mailing lists? Or
> do we all simply go through the struggle of setting up filters etc. just
> because this is the way it has always been?

Yes, I really like mailing lists. No, I've never found setting up 
filters to be a struggle. Perhaps you're using tools from the 90s. I use 
modern email clients.

Mailing lists allow me to process information at my own pace, in one 
place (my mail client). Tools that make me go to a half-dozen different 
websites may be prettier, but in the end, they invariably result in my 
losing touch with those projects, because I simply have too many places 
to check.

It's not because it's the way it's always been, so much that it's 
because nobody has yet come up with something better that works for 
everyone.

The tools that you mention - Gitlab/Github - communicate with me via 
email, otherwise I'd simply never know that something had happened.

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