<div dir="ltr">I've been participating on email lists and forums for forty-ish years and this dichotomy has been an ever present cloud hanging over that activity, sometimes, sadly, to the extent that the list-v-forum debate has swamped the desired topic of conversation .. I've seen it reach language-war proportions.<div><br></div><div>I'll express my ignorance before I go further .. I have not tracked the progress of recent (typically web-based) computer aided communications products so don't bite my head off .. what follows is a position I've held for a long time, a plea for a product that may well exist now.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm a big 'delayed binding' fan which, in this context, could mean separating the storage of the content from the display of the content. Surely there are stores that can be accessed by IMAP (for those that want the 'mailing list' experience and the Eudora interface), and by other methods SQL, REST, JSON (for those who want a more expressive web-app experience)?</div><div><br></div><div>This would seem to be in the same spirit of Markdown .. expressive when rendered, but quite readable in its raw form.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure you get the idea .. doesn't any such thing exist?</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Lane Schwartz via swift-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Is there a plan to enable an integrated mailing list functionality so that those of us who prefer that modality can continue to participate via email? Other forum software that I've been asked to use in the past (sorry, I can't remember the name) had this functionality, and it made a huge difference for me.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Ted kremenek via swift-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
[...] Specifically, there are those who really value using email for participation on swift-evolution and swift-users, and the goal is to get the forum setup to allow those people to continue to feel effective when using email for discussions on these "lists".</span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>