[swift-evolution] [Discussion] mailing list alternative

[Daniel Duan]

> On Feb 6, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Derrick Ho <wh1pch81n at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Seems like a good way to lose a thread.

You seems to be able to follow the conversation just fine despite mailman’s shortcoming :P Just sayin’.

> 
> Another reason we should move to a forum based solution...
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:46 PM Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> Mail.app grouped it in the correct thread (further proves that email clients are awesome 😀). Unfortunately mailman did not do so.
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>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:40 PM, James Berry <jberry at rogueorbit.com <mailto:jberry at rogueorbit.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Duan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> I’ve been wondering about this for a while. What heuristic does mailman use to group emails? It this really impossible even if the title, email body, recipient all fits as if it’s from a existing subscriber?
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>> This email is related to the thread only by the subject. How does it work in your email client? I just wrote a new message, no “reply to”, etc.
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>>>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com <mailto:xiaodi.wu at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> No, as you define it, they're not mutually exclusive. But maintaining the option to reply to a thread at an indeterminate point in the future when you finally get around to reading _is_ essentially mutually exclusive to not storing a copy of every email sent to the mailing list on your email account somewhere.
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