Re: newsgroups for gnome

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:04:26PM +0200 +++
Roberto Suarez Soto e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> El día 02/Aug/1999, Daniel Weber escribía:
> 
> > I like the mailing lists, but how come I can't find any newsgroups for
> > gnome-related issues?  Save a lot of wear and tear on my ISP mail server
> > if gnome had a list of newsgroups....   just my 0.02 worth....
> 
> 	No, PLEASE, no (spam|25-line-signature|4-quoted-messages|flame-war)
> full newsgroups about GNOME :-) The news system should be destroyed in spite
> of humanity mental health. Mailing lists are faster, easier, and above all,
> you have more control of the people that write in them. Much better, in my
> opinion. The only advantage that a newsgroup would have is that you don't
> have to have a mail account, but ... doesn't everybody have one, nowadays?
>:-)
> 
> 	Sorry if I'm too wrong or too exaggerated, but my newsgroups
> experience has been quite awful O:-)

D'oh. Mailing lists don't scale. Have you ever contemplated that a
mailing list server needs to mail every ingoing mail out to everyone
on the list?

BTW, there is a German-language alt Gnome newsgroup.  International
posters seem to kick in there from time to time. I think we should
maybe set up an alt.comp.gnome group or similar.

mawa
-- 
>  Err...X isn't an OS and it never will be.
No, but it is pretty good evidence for why embedding a GUI in an OS is
neither necessary nor desirable.
                                                    -- Kent Paul Dolan