<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 2:49 PM Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">| mailing lists for longer-form discussions are unfamiliar, difficult, and often intimidating for newcomers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Um… what? While I know (via my own children) that folks nowadays use multiple avenues of communication, it’s *<b>really</b>* hard to imagine email as a *<b>mechanism</b>* being unfamiliar/difficult/intimidating. Moving to a new mechanism
wouldn’t alter the fact of the very large number of strangers participating, which to my mind would be the unfamiliar/difficult/intimidating part.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--paulr</p></div></div></blockquote><div>Some cases I can think of here:</div><div> - unclear how to reply to a mail that was sent before you subscribed to the ML (obvious newbie problem - generally I'd lurk on the web until I wanted to reply)</div><div> - unclear how to create a partitioned space (new mailing list) for a topic</div><div> - subscription state/bounce messages/moderation are all IMO unclear if you haven't used mailman before<br></div><div> - the volume of traffic on (effectively-mandatory) lists is so high that it requires using mail filters, most people don't use those</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(A weak +1 to the concern about this change being made by some people in a conference room somewhere - if that's the decision-making process that's fine with me, but it'd be great to know that and have a defined way to get issues on the agenda)</div></div></div>