[vtkusers] Idea: move from mailing lists to Discourse

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree with Sean but I've lost this battle before.

On Mar 15, 2018 1:14 PM, "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:22:03 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit said:
>
> >I know ITK community have moved on to discourse
> >(https://discourse.itk.org/) and from what I've heard, the experience
> >has been great. Is it time for VTK mailing lists to move to
> >Discourse as well?
> >
> >What are people's feelings about it?
>
> Ugh.  ITK and HDF5 made this switch, and I've found it *much* worse.
> Perhaps it's great as a web forum, but the mailing list mode is a subpar
> experience.  I made a list a while ago related to an ITK discussion:
>
> - it changes the 'from' address, making off-list replies impossible
> - replying to the 'from' address bounces, making 'reply all' broken
> - there's no 'List-Post' header, so it's hard to start new threads
> - it sends html email
> - the text-only part of the email renders quotations poorly
> - quoted text in replies get removed, making inline replies
> impossible/broken
> - it does something weird with emoji characters, changing them to strings
> like ":ok_hand:"
> - it discards email signatures
>
> Sean
>
>
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