[ITK-users] [ITK] Forums suck, long live email, was Re: ResampleDICOM example and DCMTK
Matt McCormick
matt.mccormick at kitware.com
Wed Feb 14 18:48:26 EST 2018
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:47:55 -0500, Matt McCormick said:
>>
>>>Thanks for chiming in. Don't worry, email lives on :-).
>>>
>>>Instructions on how to use Discourse as a mailing list can be found here:
>>>
>>> https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32
>>
>> Alas, in my opinion anyway, using Discourse as a mailing list is a very subpar experience.
These statements are very deceiving.
>> - it changes the 'from' address, making off-list replies impossible
This means it does not expose your email address to all the spammers
on the internets!
>> - replying to the 'from' address bounces, making 'reply all' broken
Use "reply" instead of "reply all".
>> - there's no 'List-Post' header, so it's hard to start new threads
See the link above on how to start a new thread.
>> - it sends html email
Yes, this is too bad. However, HTML email is simply a standard today
in all kinds of communication.
>> - the text-only part of the email renders quotations poorly
I am not sure how bad this is relative having content only limited to
plain text. In imaging, it is helpful to be able to share images.
>> - quoted text in replies get removed, making inline replies impossible/broken
It is still possible to quote replies.
>> - it does something weird with emoji characters, changing them to strings like ":ok_hand:"
Is this bad?
>> - it discards email signatures
This is a feature.
2 cents,
Matt
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