On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > In some sense, plain text works better for IETF's needs than HTML, and maybe > plain text works better for the needs of anyone doing technical discussion > over email. There is some virtue in simplicity. One of the virtues of > plain text email is that there's not (much of) a layer of interpretation > between the text in the message and what the recipient sees. (Of course > there is a layer - the character encoding scheme - but not much more than > that.) Plain text email in IETF participation works great for me. Maybe that's just because I use mutt and VIM. Because it works great for me, I don't want to give it up, and I look with suspicion on any proposals to replace it. I do like GitHub for some IETF work, but GitHub doesn't make it easy for me to have a single interface to all the IETF repos I might want to follow or contribute to, and that would be essential for GH to supplement the email lists more. I've seen large communities replace e-mail lists with web-based forum type solutions, and I for one don't like any such that I've seen yet. My 2c.
