Do we need mailinglist(s)?

[xeroc]

xeroc, why is just using this forum such a bad idea?
I know it's not perfect but it's not so bad either.

Let's make everything transparent.
Occasionally there is a need for PM, I agree, but most stuff should not require addressing only a selected audience.

most mailing lists are public as well and I would like to have it public. Thing is, this forum has a flat hierarchy and is not threaded which, however, would make addressing individual discussions more easily.

[jakub]

xeroc, why is just using this forum such a bad idea?
I know it's not perfect but it's not so bad either.

Let's make everything transparent.
Occasionally there is a need for PM, I agree, but most stuff should not require addressing only a selected audience.

[bitcrab]

I think we can try it, yes Chinese people rarely use mailing list, but mailing list is indeed  a good tool to organize tasks.

[xeroc]

I thought Chinese people rarely use mail lists..

If that is the case, then it is not a good idea .. @alt @bitcrab: could you tell us more?

[abit]

I thought Chinese people rarely use mail lists..

[xeroc]

Talking about all what went "wrong" with how I approached the committee about the fee schedule made me believe that we should think about mailing lists for organizational tasks.
Forums are great, Telegram is great too. But non of them really work well when you want to post structured well-though posts AND answer to other's queries.

I think we should really consider (publicly archived) mailing lists for many of our organizational tasks and use this forum mainly for individual stuff like support and welcome as well as brain storming.

They do have the advantage that they are archived publicly, you can just collapse those threads that you don't want to read (assuming you have a reasonable modern mail client) and .. well .. mail is universal and does not rely on some external devs that don't do their job properly on maintaining forum software ..

Here is an example of bitcoin-dev:
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/thread.html
What's your opinion?