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I agree with jot. Email is delivered to my inbox reliably. If you have too much noise in your inbox, then set up rules to sort that out. 

Casey Rousseau

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:22 PM, Eugene Zaretskiy via Dragaera <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
> 
> There are several problems with email:
> 
> 1) My inbox is very noisy. I try to read posts to this list because they
> are of a very high quality (thanks folks!) but my inbox doesn't make it
> easy.
> 2) Mailing lists have a high barrier to entry. While I'm sure no one on
> this list would mind if a discussion went off on a tangent, I've avoided
> commenting on occasion because my comment doesn't have enough substance to
> bother everyone on the list. There's no way to signal that my email is less
> important than Jonathan Carey's excellent post about Tukko recently. Slack
> makes this easy, with each member opting into the notification level they
> desire.
> 3) Sometimes I get weird emails from the list that ask me to click various
> links to prove that I want to remain subscribed or something. Email is not
> designed for the purposes to which we put it.
> 4) The option to receive digests helps some folks deal with #1, but when
> those folks reply, it makes it harder for everyone to understand the
> discussion. I have no desire to suggest that people stop using the digest
> option (or stop replying if they do), because I understand the limitations
> of email, but Slack solves both of these problems.
> 
> No doubt though it will be hard to convince people to switch. It will
> ultimately fall on the shoulders of those members who contribute most to
> this list to use one or both and that will determine where the lurkers go.
> I don't plan to unsub from this list either, but I hope that people find
> the Slack useful.
> 
> I am working on getting emails from the list to be auto-posted to the
> Slack, so that if you are on Slack you won't miss anything -- but not vice
> versa. Maybe that will help!
> 
> - EZ
> 
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:48 PM Jot Powers via Dragaera <
> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
> 
> The number of electronic communications I've seen come and go, while
> email stays the same, is TOO DAMN HIGH.
> 
> Been on most of them.  Enjoy that one.  I'll still lurk here.  :)
> 
> -Jot
> 
> p.s. Slack's team setup is still stupid, and I use it extensively.  :P
> 
>> On 1/5/17 7:44 PM, Eugene Zaretskiy via Dragaera wrote:
>> I've created a Slack team, let's see if anyone uses it:
>> 
>> 
> https://stevenbrust.slack.com/shared_invite/MTIzMzYwNjI1NjQ4LTE0ODM2NzA1MjAtMTg5NDMwOGI3Mw
>> 
>> I'm happy to add some bots if anyone has good ideas for some... feel free
>> to suggest on said slack.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 6:46 PM Eugene Zaretskiy <eugene.zar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> There's a subreddit I'm subbed to, but they've been about as active as
>>> this list. They post about news rather than discussions of the text but
> I'm
>>> sure discussions would be welcome there.
>>> 
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Jhereg/
>>> 
>>> That said, I would join a Slack if one was available, whereas a forum is
> a
>>> pain.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM Corey Reid via Dragaera <
>>> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Agreed that a forum is unlikely to be successful.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps a Slack channel though?
>>> 
>>> Corey
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2017, at 2:17 PM, A. Craig West via Dragaera <
>>> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
>>>> I've been on a number of mailing lists that has Ave been pretty much
>>>> destroyed by the transition to a forum.  It fragments the discussion and
>>>> makes it all most impossible to follow everything
>>>> 
>>>> On 2 Jan 2017 13:38, "Jonathan Carey, CHRL via Dragaera" <
>>>> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm about to post yet another long-winded theory-crafting type email,
>>> and
>>>>> it makes me wonder...is there a Dragaera discussion forum that someone
>>> out
>>>>> there is administering?  It would be a much better platform upon which
>>> to
>>>>> have these types of discussions...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRL, CHRP
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