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by agumonkey 2015 days ago
Who else here thinks that good old mailing lists are better ? Higher density of thoughts, actual work, slower pace.

It's just a thought, I rarely use them but compared to most of the web it seems like a saner substrate

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Mailing lists were a little after my time, by and large. I was subscribed to one for a now dead open source project called PCGen, and the thing mostly seemed to be inscrutable for a new, not-so-confident user.
but that's the issue, the modern web is so easy and appealing, yet it goes nowhere it seems