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[john slee]

On 25 August 2016 at 20:32, Rob Spencer <rob at gmsn.co.uk> wrote:
> How about slack.com?
>
> Seem’s to be the flavour d’jour with most technical teams I’ve been
working with.

As someone in a technical team who uses Slack (and its decidedly superior
competitor Flowdock) every day:

*Please* let's not!

* Slack has no threading (unlike email clients)
* Slack and Flowdock both lack the ability to block/ignore people (unlike
email)
* They don't seem to have offline modes (unlike email)
* Slack has limited history if you don't pay for it. Something like 10000
messages I think. Not much at all in a chat-oriented medium.
* Slack and Flowdock have limited choice of clients

@Roman, I'd strongly advise against inventing yet another listserv app. We
already have Mailman and similar. IMHO Mailing lists should only be
administered by people who deeply understand email.

My vote is for Google Groups, or a well-regarded, professionally-hosted
list hosting service such as Hugh proposed. I would throw actual cash
contributions toward the latter if required.

John
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