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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by sokoloff on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:13PM (#17621771)
> Mailing lists are nice, but we have no real way to make mailing lists that start and stop on the fly like a chat channel in a way that is searchable to the entire organization during or after the fact.

Isn’t that what subject lines and mail archives are useful for?

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by ebiester on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:38PM (#17621964)
What's the mail archive that can be set up with the same ease of use and permissions as slack? What, are you going to say hypermail?

Nobody has put together a simple solution in the mail domain. Maybe there's a market for it - turns out someone might pay for it if it's better than the slack experience.

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