Quality of the email support
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::::You can't really "force" people. Threading is essential to survive with conversations such as [[wikimedia-l]], e.g. to (un)follow (un)interesting subthreads. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:07, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
::::You can't really "force" people. Threading is essential to survive with conversations such as [[wikimedia-l]], e.g. to (un)follow (un)interesting subthreads. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:07, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
:::::No, sorry, you're quite right; I meant that people ''do'' rather clarify their meanings when they're replying out of context. It sometimes makes for more verbosity though. — [[User:Samwilson|Sam Wilson]] ( <span style="font-size:0.9em">[[User_talk:Samwilson|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Samwilson|Contribs]]</span> ) … 00:25, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
:::::No, sorry, you're quite right; I meant that people ''do'' rather clarify their meanings when they're replying out of context. It sometimes makes for more verbosity though. — [[User:Samwilson|Sam Wilson]] ( <span style="font-size:0.9em">[[User_talk:Samwilson|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Samwilson|Contribs]]</span> ) … 00:25, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
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::::::I'd be curious how many people use a threading email client these days; surely most use gmail with its flat views. If wikimedia-l is considered "unsurvivable" without features unavailable to most of it readers (not to mention most would-be readers in the Wikimedia community), that would be a pretty strong argument against the status quo. --[[User:Tgr (WMF)|Tgr (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Tgr (WMF)|talk]]) 08:47, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
I found out that [[w:FUDforum|FUDforum]] has a native NNTP gateway, and Mailman can also be configured for a NNTP<->mail gateway. Perhaps we should be testing FUDforum rather than Discourse, if mailing lists are your target. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:02, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I found out that [[w:FUDforum|FUDforum]] has a native NNTP gateway, and Mailman can also be configured for a NNTP<->mail gateway. Perhaps we should be testing FUDforum rather than Discourse, if mailing lists are your target. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 07:02, 24 March 2016 (UTC)