Comment by ajkjk
15 hours ago
You think that people's findings should be communicated by email? that their email chains are what should go into the permanent record and be cited and printed out and included in journals and such?
would you include all the quoted text in the reply-alls, or is that too much?
That's how Linux is built.
Science has too many threads to do it successfully though
> would you include all the quoted text in the reply-alls, or is that too much?
Only quote the relevant part and reply to it, just like this very comment.
And Linux has a large mailing archive of various lists and threads that are searchable and available to everyone and get this: free access
The linux developers' mailing lists are not producing anything like scientific papers...
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