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Robert Story
rstory at ant.isi.edu
Fri May 26 20:44:00 CEST 2023
On Fri 2023-05-26 10:31:16+0200 Gert wrote: > 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". +1. I think discord or some other 'chat' medium is fine for "I need support for X *right now*", but horrible for longer discussions with multiple people. > 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. Yes, but at least email has threading to group subjects together so you can easily review/ignore/delete/archive. Following a long multi-participant discussion in chat rooms is nigh impossible. Even if the platform has a way to 'reply to thread', many people aren't aware of it. /Robert
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