[OT] Don't use google groups?

[Benjamin Fritz]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Sudarshan S <email2sudharshan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 23:07, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
>> > To: Alexander Leschinsky <lazybadger at gmail.com>
>> > Cc: mercurial <mercurial at selenic.com>
>> > Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:54:16 -0500
>> > Subject: Re: UTF8 with BOM and hgrc
>> > [please don't post through Google Groups!]
>> >
>>
>> Why not? I've done so in the past and haven't received any complaints.
>> Did something change (maybe the introduction of the stupid "always
>> rich text" interface)?
>>
>> Also, why isn't this particular thread (UTF8 with BOM and hgrc) on
>> google groups? Was it deleted?
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>
> Disclaimer: I'm not a mercurial developer
>
> This page may have some useful info:
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MailingLists#List_etiquette
>
> The page references a message from mpm explaining why google groups causes
> issues. Please see this reference (linked below):
>
> http://mercurial.markmail.org/thread/7s23jgvl5gk2d57h
>
> AFAIK posting through google groups makes mpm have to manually go through
> each message.

Thanks! I'm curious about the "google groups breaks the [list] rules"
statement. I don't see any of the 8 listed rules that it necessarily
breaks. Maybe this is referring to:

2. Please don't drop cc:s from replies or bcc: the list
(By default in the past the CCs got dropped by default, but you could
add them back; I think the new interface keeps them by default)

7. Please don't top post - put your reply underneath the message you
are replying to.
(By default the google groups interface places the cursor above the
message, but this is easy to work around and no different than many
email clients).

Don't get me wrong, I will start replying via email! If the lack of
the real mailing list address in the message headers wasn't enough to
convince me, the direct request from Matt certainly is. I'm curious
though which list rules google groups breaks.

In the past, I've used google groups because I get digest emails, and
didn't want to mess up message threading in other people's email
clients by replying to the digest and editing the subject rather than
replying to the message itself. I went to google groups in an effort
to better maintain message threading. I don't want to receive all
emails from the list; is there a better way to maintain an unbroken
thread?