David Weintraub wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:23:57 -0400:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ds Jstc <dsjstc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > But I have one big problem that I can't resolve.
> >
> > It's this: the mailing list paradigm drives me insane.
> >
> > I want to search for solutions, complain about my favorite missing features,
> > and reply to other people's problems when I've already solved them. But I
> > can't seem to do that without subscribing to the mailing list. And my inbox
> > is entirely full enough, thank you.
>
> You don't have to use this mailing list. You can use forums such as
> Stackoverflow.com. However, as mailing lists go, this is one of the
> most helpful and useful ones I've seen. Because of that, you're
> probably stuck with this email list.
>
Also, some of the maintainers are on this list. (I personally don't read
any web forums related to Subversion.)
> But, the best reason is that with 7 Gigabytes of storage, I don't have
> to delete any emails. After a couple of years, you have an archive of
> easily searchable Subversion emails (better than the current web
> archive they use).
>
Nah. I have N GB of mail storage from my provider, and I still set the
svn-dev mailbox to auto-delete mail older than M days. When I need
something older I use the archives.
Received on 2010-07-30 09:30:47 CEST