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On 07/09/10 06:19, Al wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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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> By this a lot of interesting solutions are lost to effective web |
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> search. The buzz in IRC doesn't result in a web searchable |
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> documentation. It is rubbish the moment after it was written. Also it |
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> is not everybodies taste only to send small messages and to paste |
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> elsewhere when the stuff exceeds 2 lines of code. |
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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. 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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> When comparing Gentoo with other communities it has very good |
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> documentation but communication could be better. I am missing the |
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> heart of it. |
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> Al |
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Why say that "lists are dead early"? This list I find takes a certain |
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amount of maintenance to keep up-to-date, otherwise it grows to an |
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unmanageable number of e-mails in my Inbox. If anything, it's "too |
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alive" with too much communication, it's nowhere near dead. That's not |
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to say I'm complaining about the amount of mail this list generates; I'm |
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just saying that it's certainly not dead. |
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Everyone's got their preference; some like mailing lists and come here. |
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Others like forums and go there. Still others prefer IRC. |
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Also, a quick Google search of "gentoo newsgroup" showed me |
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alt.os.linux.gentoo, and that it's been posted to as recently as less |
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than a month ago. What's wrong with that newsgroup? |
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And I, for one at least, use Thunderbird to read my e-mail; the |
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interface is pretty much the same for mail and news. A little |
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configuration change and I'd be using news. But I like the mailing |
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list, not newsgroups. (shrug) |
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Jake Moe |
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