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Message-ID: <1447334441.17049.91.camel@interlinx.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: [chef] The migration from lists.opscode.com to
 discourse.chef.io
From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: Chef Mailing List <discourse+2d235f986553ccb4906d4c00d54e6966@chef.io>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:20:41 -0500
In-Reply-To: <topic/7309/27353@discourse.chef.io>
References: <topic/7309@discourse.chef.io>
         <topic/7309/27353@discourse.chef.io>
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On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 06:39 +0000, nathenharvey wrote:
> Discourse is not a mailing list.

But I can reply to messages like it were?  I guess we will see if/when
this one is posted/distributed.

Initially there were threading problems.  Has that been fixed?  Again,
I guess this message will tell me/us if/when it gets posted.

> It offers a much nicer and feature-rich web user interface.=20


But what if we don't want/like web-interfaces?  I don't need yet
another website with it's own username/password that I have to log into
 every time I want to interact.  Mailing lists make this sort of thing
soooo much easier with a much much higher signal:noise ratio, without
all of the HTML "decoration" that wastes so much space and bandwidth.

> Discourse offers capabilities that go beyond a mailing list that I
> encourage you to explore.  I truly believe this will lead to much
> more productive and engaging conversations that we were able to have
> with our legacy mailing list.

As long as I get to send and receive e-mails, that will be fine.  I do
seem to be receiving them fine.  I guess this message will test the
sending functionality.  But if I cannot interact with it like it were a
mailing list, I will likely be departing from the community.  To be
blunt, I *hate* forums.  Everything about them is wrong.

On the other hand, if the e-mail interface works out, you will have
done better than most forums implementations out there and you will get
my applause for that.

Cheers,
b.

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