> Clearly I am not on enough lists, though, because I have > missed where this was brought up. Who wants to get rid of > them, and in favour of what? > We can develop a forum-like application on top of mailing lists for new-comers. Actually gmame does this, but we can de-uglify it as we did it with bugzilla.gnome.org. However we have to keep in mind that, mailing lists should be organized better in such that related topics should be stored in appropriate mailing list. Also it should be better to point out not all communication through mailing-list is suitable due to their structure. There're couple of mailing-lists which is dead, or unused. As an example I think user support through mailing list is very high barrier. I guess it's better to broaden communication ways for GNOME community. IRC, mailing-lists, newsgroups, IMs, Wiki, blogs, bugzilla etc. and choose appropriate channel to point subject matter. So in other words we have to use all ways of possible communication officially in order to find best alternative for best use. Think about in utopia, wouldn't it be cool if we had ekiga or skype server, or even IM server which act like a call-center composed of volunteers.
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