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Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No] (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Some people talk about mailing lists with a lot of reverence, but I have only ever found them to be extremely ugly and unreadable.

Are there any good clients out there that make them readable? For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity? Or for PR/MRs an interface that shows the diffs with syntax highlighting, toggleable unified and side by side diff views, ability to comment within diffs and continue discussions within them (maybe even threaded)?

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

No, mailing lists are used for submitting patches inline. That's how the Linux kernel and many other projects do it.

For this reason, all patches should be submitted by e-mail “inline”.

https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html

Edit OP linked an example above: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/12/22

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