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[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Fri May 26 10:31:16 CEST 2023
Hi, On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 09:41:59AM +0200, Leo Vegoda wrote: > There was more discussion than I expected. I???m sending this message to > ask the questions: > > - Am I wrong? Are e-mail discussion lists a sustainable communication > channel for the foreseeable future? > - Are e-mail discussion lists an acceptable technology to people > joining the industry? This is a hard problem - we tried with the WG lists and the forums, and the results are not convincing. On the mailing list, you have the old hands (like me) that can't really get themselves to like all the newfangled "you need a web browser" communication forms (forum, slack, teams, ...) - and you lose the youngfolks that do not do e-mails. One of the big advantages of e-mail is the asynchronity of communication, as in "I do not have to be awake to follow a discussion that started in a different timezone, and reply to it". One of the big disadvantages of e-mail is the asynchronity of communication, as in "this reply to something which was written many days ago is drowned by a communication thread that has long drifted to a different topic"... And whatever we do, anything I've seen so far does not truly scale beyond "a few handful of active participants" - a mail thread with 1000 active participants will overwhelm readers as much as a teams or forums discussion, or a videocall... this is the really hard problem I see. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: </ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/attachments/20230526/ac2831c6/attachment.sig>
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