[whensdinner]

it's an unsearchable waterfall of noise, especially if you have to subscribe to multiple. It's such a chaotic and ephemeral way to communicate about things that should be orderly and timeless. I honestly cannot imagine trying to make a case for mailing lists when there are more robust and intuitive options available.

Saying "it's email" means nothing. Just because you announce the name of the tool doesn't make it the right tool.

[db48x]

It’s exactly as chaotic or orderly as the people who are talking to each other, and it would be no different if those same people were using a bug tracker.

And what do you mean by unsearchable? There is a search box right there for anyone to use: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ Long time subscribers to the list would do a local search from within their own email program, of course.