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Re: Why use mailing lists?

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All, as far as I can tell.

Is Gmail non-propietary? Can you self host it?

You can self host an email server, what you can't self host is proprietary features on top of those, but I'm pretty sure you can find alternatives that work with said email server software you picked to self host.

Re: Why use mailing lists?

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why is it bad for technical work? it seems like a very technical variety of forum

It has all sorts of gamification that gets in the way, it’s easy to over-silo discussions, it has a concept of “answered” that’s not really appropriate for a lot of project level discussion, it has all sorts of other extraneous crap like “reactions,” and—most importantly—it’s fundamentally implemented as a web page that everyone involved needs visit regularly to see when there’s something new and to respond to that.…

Sounds like a similar feature set to github tbh
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