[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Gentoos community communication rant

[Jörg Schaible]

Al wrote:

>> Al,
>>
>> Do everyone a favor. Go use Gmane and tell us what exactly
>> you'd be able to do that Gmane does not already do.
>> It's archived, search-able (via keywords) and many, many
>> other very cool features.
>
> I do you favour and confirm that it is a very cool web interface to
> newsgroups. It is especially usefull if you have to switch between
> machines. It is good that they mirror the gentoo mailing lists and
> give them an archive. As long as you work from the same desktop a
> classical newsreader seems still more comfortable to me.
>
> However, my concern was why the Gentoo community doesn't make use of
> those cool features and officially only advertises and keeps a mailing
> list, that has no history itself for example and how this approach
> influences and limits the culture of communication.

Gmane is actually not only a web interface, it *is* also a news server. 
Infact this posting is written from my newsreader ...

- Jörg