[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists

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
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