Re: Erlang shell evolutions
Igor Clark <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:49:05 +0100
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--Apple-Mail=_2A2032EC-90EF-499E-9A75-1C93A33DD18C Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As far as I understand it you don't need to do that - if you turn on = mailing-list mode (in Profile > Preferences > Emails) then you can = filter things out rather than in. It's under Profile > Preferences > = Notifications. I was quite wary of the move to the forum, and as far as I can tell the = ideological/cultural/legal/CoC (etc) issues that many people here were = concerned about haven't really changed. But for anyone who hasn't signed = up simply because they don't like web forums: having tried it out and = set it all up, I find that mailing list mode does work pretty well, with = the additional benefit that you can filter out topics/categories/users = you don't want to read. The main downside that I can see is that it only = does HTML and not plain text emails. Apart from that though it now = appears to me as a mailing list, with individual messages that I = receive, read and can reply to by mail, and it has worked just fine for = me so far. You can't do all the upvoting and liking and following etc = that forums provide if you use it exclusively in mailing-list mode, but = obviously that's not possible on a mailing list anyway, so it doesn't = seem a big sacrifice. Cheers i > On 12 Apr 2022, at 12:04, Benjamin Scherrey <[email protected]> = wrote: >=20 > My understanding was that the forum software would post their messages = to email but apparently that hasn't happened for this topic (and likely = others). Does one have to go subscribe to each individual forum topic in = order to receive them via email? >=20 > -- Ben Scherrey >=20 > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 5:59 PM Maria Scott = <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> = wrote: > Well, to be fair, it has been announced previously that the OTP team = will not participate in the ML any longer and will concentrate on the = forum instead. This is not to say that I like it, but it is IMO = understandable that they don't want to hold discussions in and split = information and input across multiple channels. That said, I also see no = feasible way to integrate one into the other such that posts and answers = made in the forum can appear on the ML and/or vice versa :( >=20 > My 2 cents. > Maria --Apple-Mail=_2A2032EC-90EF-499E-9A75-1C93A33DD18C Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">As = far as I understand it you don't need to do that - if you turn on = mailing-list mode (in Profile > Preferences > Emails) then you can = filter things out rather than in. It's under Profile > Preferences = > Notifications.<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I = was quite wary of the move to the forum, and as far as I can tell the = ideological/cultural/legal/CoC (etc) issues that many people here were = concerned about haven't really changed. But for anyone who hasn't signed = up simply because they don't like web forums: having tried it out and = set it all up, I find that mailing list mode does work pretty well, with = the additional benefit that you can filter out topics/categories/users = you don't want to read. The main downside that I can see is that it only = does HTML and not plain text emails. Apart from that though it now = appears to me as a mailing list, with individual messages that I = receive, read and can reply to by mail, and it has worked just fine for = me so far. You can't do all the upvoting and liking and following etc = that forums provide if you use it exclusively in mailing-list mode, but = obviously that's not possible on a mailing list anyway, so it doesn't = seem a big sacrifice.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D"">Cheers</div><div class=3D"">i</div><div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><div><blockquote type=3D"cite" = class=3D""><div class=3D"">On 12 Apr 2022, at 12:04, Benjamin Scherrey = <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" = class=3D"">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div dir=3D"ltr" = class=3D"">My understanding was that the forum software would post their = messages to email but apparently that hasn't happened for this topic = (and likely others). Does one have to go subscribe to each individual = forum topic in order to receive them via email?<div class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div class=3D""> -- Ben Scherrey</div></div><br = class=3D""><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" = class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 5:59 PM Maria Scott <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" = class=3D"">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br = class=3D""></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px = 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid = rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well, to be fair, it has been = announced previously that the OTP team will not participate in the ML = any longer and will concentrate on the forum instead. This is not to say = that I like it, but it is IMO understandable that they don't want to = hold discussions in and split information and input across multiple = channels. That said, I also see no feasible way to integrate one into = the other such that posts and answers made in the forum can appear on = the ML and/or vice versa :(<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> My 2 cents.<br class=3D""> Maria<br class=3D""> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_2A2032EC-90EF-499E-9A75-1C93A33DD18C--