[Biopython] How many of you are on Slack?

[Stéphane Téletchéa]

Dear all,

I understand the arguments of all others,

Le 28/06/2021 à 17:00, João Rodrigues a écrit :
> An email is "passive": you subscribe and that's it, gets delivered to 
> your inbox. It's also the lowest common denominator in terms of tech 
> in the sense that everyone has/uses email.

But yes, I'm probably more traditional, email is asynchronous and I like 
that.

Personally I really HATE slack, too disperse for my brain, I've worked 
with it for one year and this was awful and very time consuming,
I'm also using regularly Mattermost and I also dislike it a lot. 
Students say it is wonderful, but this was really because we were confined
that I had accepted to work like this (taking too much time to be 
productive).

Considering google groups, I also HATE it as google mail etc. I'm also 
concerned about the
"we cut without delay this service as we don't want to run it anymore" 
policy of Google that happened already on many of their past services.

This is probably only me but I have a very well organised mail box with 
many synchronised mails (sometimes on one computer, sometimes on another 
one),
and that fits my needs.

If you close the mailing list, then I'd follow, but the existing 
situation is ok to me.

Considering the overhead of running different systems, I completely 
understand the need to leverage it,
but I'm not sure there are reliable long-term solutions really available.

My 0.02 cents/pennies.

Best,

Stéphane

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