From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EX2IA-0003x7-Mv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:59:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1JwExS009215; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:58:14 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (cpc2-hudd1-6-0-cust92.hudd.cable.ntl.com [81.111.209.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1Jrjc2027669 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:53:46 GMT Received: (qmail 27642 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2005 19:53:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2005 19:53:41 +0000 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:53:38 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511010836.29453.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051101075631.GB18490@superlupo.rechner> <1130873554.8565.2.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> In-Reply-To: <1130873554.8565.2.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511011953.40181.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 3a778a66-9527-463f-a60b-12ca7c02ad35 X-Archives-Hash: 08ba210634fbf61bcda2f7a148955f80 On Tuesday 01 November 2005 19:32, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > 1) Why post to forums.g.o if its on www, why would one check forums > > > instead of www. > > Redundancy - to get the attention of those folks that for whatever > The users I've spoken to about our news situation have expressly stated > that one of their concerns is that there are *too many* places to check > for news. > > They're not looking for us to scatter news across many mediums - they > want one place to go. This user would prefer important news in as many places as possible. Yes, scattering different types of news about the tree in different places is stupid, having the same news in 4 different places might be mildly annoying if you see it 4 times, but if 4 times as many users see it all the better. Redundancy is a Good Thing. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list