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On Monday 06 September 2010, 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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wtf are you talking about? |
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and who is using news anyway? |