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 1EWkTj-0002tp-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:58:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA10vaBK012684; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:57:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA10sWKu022873 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:54:32 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWkQ4-0004ux-3s for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:54:32 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EWkOo-0001i0-93 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:53:14 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:53:14 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:53:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:52:05 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <4364EC47.8050803@gentoo.org> <1130722932.8550.33.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <1130768528.26789.70.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <43662CD9.2000405@gentoo.org> <1130777404.10549.16.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <4366504B.20409@gentoo.org> <1130784979.10542.32.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-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: bc83b726-8667-4e81-8f4c-c0786af74c6c X-Archives-Hash: 1d2c5e59a9dc4de6eb077304c5bafc33 Stuart Herbert posted <1130784979.10542.32.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:56:19 +0000: >> Reading gentoo-announce should be mandatory. > > I think that statement ignores a basic human truth - that not every user > likes using mailing lists. Just like not every user likes using forums. While you have a point, note that lists aren't the /only/ way posts to announce get spread. As I mentioned in a post to a different subthread, the real circulation of announce is far higher. I and presumably a decent number of others read it thru gmane's list2news gateway. (As you say, not everyone likes mail, I prefer news.) As announce will be read-only for most folks, those reading it there won't subscribe thru Gentoo in digest or vacation mode as they do with this list, for instance. LWN.net is another well recognized source for news in the Linux community, and they cover Gentoo well enough that it's where I first got interested in Gentoo. (I also rate LWN highly enough that I'm willing to pay them real money for a subscription, a rare thing for internet news sites, beyond the WSJ at least.) Currently, LWN covers releases, GLSAs, and of course GWN. LWN probably gets the GLSAs and release announcements thru the announce list (and likely gets GWN thru its list), so would cover other news, if posted to announce, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list