hoggy's Journal: Tempus sure fugit.

So I'm on this mailing list and someone posts saying how the website is crap because there's no "reply" button. He asks how can he reply to a post from a couple of months ago before he joined the list. I said it doesn't matter. Who cares. Just send another email, it doesn't have to be a reply. He says that's no good as how will people on the thread be notified that he has replied to them.

I realised that he was expecting the mailing list to be like a web discussion board. I pointed out that on a mailing list everyone gets the email. That the archives are just a copy and don't have anything to do with the operation of the mailing list as such.

I feel old. I had an email address before the web existed, now there are people who are so used to the web that they don't know how email works.

Jesus.