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Al writes: |
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> being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical |
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> heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. |
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> At least a news server is not offically announced on |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read |
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> some, not all of the lists via infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.) |
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> Well, there are mailinglists. But mailinglists send each message to |
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> everybody producing a lot of traffic overhead. As as result people are |
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> socially driven to reduce the amount of messages. The lists are dead |
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> early while IRC still is active. |
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Hmm, ist this really true? We have good bandwith nowadays, even Dale has |
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DSL now, so I don't care about the extra traffic this mailing list |
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creates. When it's too much to read, or threads do not interest me, I mark |
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them as read, as I would with my news client. I'm using IMAP, so as with |
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news, only the headers are downloaded, and the body comes when I select it |
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to read. This is fast enough these days, years ago I used pop3, and |
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downloaded all new news messages completely and read them in my local copy |
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to speed things up. Which I sill like to do for news and mail, because |
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then I can do full text searches. |
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What I am missing is more mailing lists. The gentoo-performance list hast |
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just been closed due to too few traffic A pity, because now all those |
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topics will show up here instead. Which would, to be true, not change a |
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thing, because noone used gentoo-performance, but in an ideal world I |
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think people would. But this is not an ideal world. |
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> Then there are some Gentoo web forums out there. Now that is really |
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> slow, moving tons of HTML for every single posting. Valuable |
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> information is scattered all around. |
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I don't use the forums much. It's not about the traffic, but I miss |
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threading - I don't like to read a dozen of pages of a discussion. But |
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then, I often just google some search terms, and google finds relevant |
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postings. Some from the forum, some from archives of the mailing list. |
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Works quite well. Although it is crazy to have the information scattered |
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around in all those different places, and I woud prefer to have all this |
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in some newsgroups instead. But I don't care too much about this. |
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> Do we think intelligent people to |
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> limited to install a Thunderbird to read news, so that people are to |
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> driven to web forums like housewifes, that only know the web as |
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> webpages? |
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No, but if people prefer the forums, even if there are better things, let |
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them, you won't change their habits. |
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Wonko |