Mailing lists are evil, why they must be eradicated [was: Starting Engineer's Salaries]

John Williams wrote:
> 
>> Hard to know if the quiet was due to trolling or some externality.
> 
> It looks to me like this email list is usually quiet because the vast
> majority of the members have self-selected so that they have many of
> the same opinions. You do not get many interesting discussions that 
> go "X is good." "I agree". "Me too". "Count me in". "+1".
>
I agree.

But, seriously, mailing lists are dying. It seems that
as time goes by, _less_ people knows how to reply
in an adequate format, quoting relevant parts and trimming
the message to the necessary minimum. Top-posting is a plague
much worse than trolling; if I were <s>world dictator</s>
list administrator I would not ban anyone for an occasional
trolling, but I would ban for top-posting.

Also, it seems that everybody loves blogs, even He seldom
comes here but is active in His blog - what's the point
of a Brin-l list that does not discuss anything Brin-related?

And young people don't use e-mail; they prefer those awful MSNs,
Orkuts, Facebooks, etc.

Alberto Monteiro