[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 2050, Issue 1

[Julian Robbins]

Well I think there are some better alternatives to email now with some of
the excellent chat applications as Kevin suggests including Rocket Chat
which is similar and again Open source

It may be we can come up with something that can track the emails against
threads better whether you are using normal or digest mode and additionally
provide email notifications for those that prefer them.

For example Frecycle always used to use a mailing list similar to ours but
now has moved over to a web application whee you get more added value with
the application in terms of searching for items links photos etc. But it
still is able to send an email notification with the web link so in
operation is not so different to before in terms of what users see with
emails they receive

Look forward to seeing everyone later at the meeting.  Let's have a good
turnout for a change ...

Julian

On 24 May 2017 2:06 p.m., "Kevin Dontenville via Herefordshire" <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Perhaps, but I dont want my email timeline clogged with each individual
> responses and embedded reply noise/content dupe all clumsily threaded in
> email.
>
> Like many people I can get hundreds of emails and messages each day and
> picking out a conversation gets time consuming and therefore put off.
>
> Just a few bats back and forth makes email a bit of mess, even without
> including forwarded content which can help but only with content that
> threads to time properly so you can keep track of origin and response and
> retain full inclusion. You dont read it in one place as a stream but as an
> adhoc series of separate emails to open. With the forwarded content even
> this email is around 300 lines!
>
> But I'll accept I must be in a minority so that's no reason to change what
> works for everyone else! ;-)
>
> K
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