Mailing lists are rubbish

They're not rubbish. They're garbage.

Well. It's certainly true that *some* mailing lists are rubbish. :)

They have potentially legitimate uses. I claim that this is a poor quality claim because it is ambiguous on exactly what the claim is :)

Perhaps I should instead have claimed "email is rubbish". :)

Mailing lists are rubbish because they are either not updated enough or updated too often. There is no happy medium or if there is, no mailing list has achieved it.

I have a few examples of working mailing lists. All of them used as a tool for organizing events for a real-life community. Or for sharing funny stuff, though (above a certain, extremely low, volume) that is considered rubbish.

I consider there are better ways to handle both of the above things, but this doesn't make mailing lists rubbish. Maybe a little outdated.

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