Hello, On Wed 02 Oct 2019 at 11:30AM +02, Mathias Behrle wrote: > first of all it would help a lot to identify when a new subthread is > openend and make this visible in the usual way (like this mail does). It would > increase a lot(!) the readability of Debian lists where this is an > often encountered problem. Thank you for the reminder about that; it's useful. > BTW no discussion tool can help in automating separate discussion > threads when the topic changes. Yes, and more generally, what we are trying to deal with seems to be a social problem, not a technical problem, so moving away from mailing lists is unlikely to have a large impact. > Meanwhile we are at the often introduced question if better tooling could help. > I don't think another tool can save a lot of time. We *ourselves* can help > that with more discipline in following the good old rules in marking subthreads > when they are going offtopic. Finally the scheduling of the different topics > led partly to the fact that only quite few members could participate. This will > be a constant problem in a project of volunteers and I think we will have to > live with that fact. Yes. -- Sean Whitton
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