Re: [boost] Why a mailing list?

From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-08 12:01:58

On 3/7/07, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> My guess is that you simply have a crappy mailclient. From what I can
> tell,
> you are using gmail via a webfrontend, right? About that, I have to tell
> you
> that this is probably not the right tool for handling a few hundred
> messages
> a day. The particular problems I perceive are threading (dunno if it's
> present in gmail) and the browser-latency (I would get insane if it took
> me
> more than a second to switch to a different message).

I regularly parse all of the boost mailing lists via the gmail web
interface.  For me, it handles threading adequately, and there is no
perceived latency (most days) when opening mail.

I much prefer the mailing list format.

Jon