[Scons-dev] [scons-dev] New scons-dev mailing list

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net> wrote:

> Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> writes:

>

>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:11 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

>>     My proposal are Google Groups.

>>

>>> That was my initial thought too.  It has a lot of advantages.

>

> From what I've seen, Google Groups has a terribly tendency to make

> people forget that they're replying to an *email* and not some bulletin

> board. This means that people top-post by default, send HTML emails, and

> don't trim the mails they're quoting. This might be newbie-friendly, but

> I also find it developer-hostile.


I wish email thread interpretation was a user-controlled feature of
mail agents. With GMail I don't bother about mail trimming, and HTML
stuff, but it's of course - not as convenient as reading mail from
console.
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anatoly t.