From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OspV4-0006m1-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:09:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04808E098E; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91E2E098E for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so5932699bwz.40 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=fxIwFw+5+gDOUrCTkmQUaOQraKosW65/dArDU2IUWyY=; b=FEkFqa2yRQl9c7o5osZpvIa3snLLhUlhrE527haE5g/PojPIdHD2uZR+yQABBShJNZ ea8IsIfBTlZXVO8A/nvXYeqjWfsf4MkppEAdTNSzgvRSXvvJB9QBgWn7nrk0UVS5FA5v /BGxnDmC5sCQdc0bzikOXMr8g34FmwK2bNtQs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=knDDGq+edff2CmPVd0YUEkgG09bLr+Al3L1vRrlUfQfj5yV/BMExkP5TK+0d0qJlRv HU2r6LgOdb1xLwdaUqIse+mSbwOKpeAreJ/P17uvdUrrzcH9f6A2/L+p+I3MsF1W/xUP MruHwAYRBU5fZqPhSp1Ui4VJd5sowRkXwMH04= Received: by 10.204.82.136 with SMTP id b8mr3935213bkl.38.1283832548138; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC0EED.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.14.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x19sm4874809bkv.9.2010.09.06.21.09.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:09:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34.6r4; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <14014.1283815538@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009070609.01907.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1ab37f2f-d3d2-4f7e-b012-671dbb5fb1ad X-Archives-Hash: ca90ee6e9530ffba0f3235ac20ccefd2 On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: > >> I was trying to figure this out myself. I thought maybe I was missing > >> something in the message. Maybe not. > > > > Isn't the list aggregated into that news site gmain or whatever its > > called? > > Then he can have it as a newsgroup. > > It's not the question how I read it, but a question how a majority of > users can read and write to it. That influences the culture and > athmosphere of communication. Also I think Volkers remark was very > ironical else he should best go back to his dishes. > > Al up until today nobody ever mentioned news. Everybody was happy using mailing lists, forums or irc. Or to phrase it differently: news is dying out quickly and gentoo never missed anything not having a newsgroups.