I don’t really use mailing lists, but I have often seen references to their utility.<\/p>\n
This is a bit of an exercise in trialling a research methodology out. I’m interested in making a program to help me do this, but I’m going to try just writing all the stuff I think I want to save in a database down in a blogpost, and see how cumbersome it is. I already do a lot of this in my head, but I sometimes decide not to bother, because no one can see what I have only done in my head.<\/p>\n
Hmmmm. Neat. So, in flushing out the things I know and the things I think I need to figure out, an important truth has been discovered: I already know how to use mailing lists sufficiently well.<\/strong> I mean, goodness, I use them at work every day. For some reason, mailing lists in the wild just seemed like a different beast to me.<\/p>\n My questions are more about “how to be a power user of these” than “how do they even work” — but even there, I think I have a fair grasp.\u00a0For example:<\/p>\n I do not<\/strong> know how to manage them or what I don’t know.<\/p>\n This shift in ‘what I want to know’ suggests I should perhaps issue a new google query, ‘how to manage mailing lists’ rather than ‘how to use mailing lists’. A google search for that shows why it is a bad idea: most people who search that are looking to manage a list, not manage their interaction with several lists. After a few more trial queries, I landed on the simple “reading mailing lists”, which gave me links 2A and 2B.<\/p>\n 2B is a little worthless and short, but 2A looks like the kind of goldmine I was looking for, and it’s also telling me something I’d wondered: a specific client, like mutt, may be my best option.<\/p>\n I think I can’t actually know super practically what managing them entails until I start trying, so maybe I should just subscribe to a bunch and see how it goes. If gmail fails me, and I can’t find anything out there, I’ll can build something that solves my problems. The suggestion of trying mutt is likely where I’ll turn to first once I run into a problem, but it might be nice not to have to boot a vm to read mail (I use windows on my home laptop.)<\/p>\n Thanks for bearing with me through this slightly silly experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t really use mailing lists, but I have often seen references to their utility. This is a bit of an exercise in trialling a research methodology out. I’m interested in making a program to help me do this, but I’m going to try just writing all the stuff I think I want to save […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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