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What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

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[–] o11c@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with mailing lists is that no mailing list provider ever supports "subscribe to this message tree".

As a result, either you get constant spam, or you don't get half the replies.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I sort messages from mailing lists into different mail folders, and my client (Gnus) supports a threaded view of messages (and I can press ‘k’ on a message to mark the entire thread as read), so this isn’t a big issue for me.