- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:02:13 -0500
- To: Matthew Wilcox <elvendil@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 1/5/12 1:55 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Isn't that a false arguemnt, in two ways? > > 1) You can't participate ina discussion offline because you can at > best only author a comment on what may be old thread content. You're > not tlaking to anyone, you're composing messages to old content. Who said anything about participating in discussions offline? This list is used for discussions and announcements. What I often need is the _result_ of those discussions or the content of those announcements. And I often need it offline. > 2) Is it really a big use case for people using the lists that they > are disconnected from the internet whilst doing www-style work? It is for me. Keep in mind that "www-style work" is my full-time job. > Get the same benefit by subscribing to forum RSS and having that pull > down to a reader on your machine. I covered that elsewhere in this thread. > There is nothing that email is doing that a forum can not also do. Better. Likewise. -Boris
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