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 1Osusd-0007cR-Rf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:54:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F22ABE08A1; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1673E08A1 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so2623311gwa.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:53:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=DGA4OsG0W9fQK6begoI1iiG0JhNdW23EOqyfrNPfzVE=; b=uAlYMl7UHjq8MxXP3fiCSWWo3uoyPXNVH2hsNkYkoHulWO5yykQGyUGLZQ4GSzUdHN +pYx6ozlr76wG4dK07eqVaRzQ7cWCPFNi7JMWswjHTFW1T59awtJEWPeVTF2Y14v3vYZ dadFQwfTWWHooVzlylxclHaJQFl4PVh/F+cqw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=kWhQOYAk5K0Z+UV414lcNnE547sr4WBmUCEiGLZkiC/Aa7b4iTK2awMEtDTzT9Jlx4 J4pe36yTMxUs/PlaFVChS7NRwW4cI7gPlunfNC+114W/30zl/Yw9U3CMwUFXbbhyTKYc G29TnaaNDeGB5SeP67W8+qRqHYiLiH17SJ340= Received: by 10.150.7.5 with SMTP id 5mr20492ybg.443.1283853225001; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacific.net.au (ppp5915.dsl.pacific.net.au [125.255.25.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i4sm7176975ybd.15.2010.09.07.02.53.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:53:38 +1000 From: Gregory Shearman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant Message-ID: <20100907095337.GA17805@pacific.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: d05b10e9-caa1-4a98-b822-1cdce9801e10 X-Archives-Hash: b7aa6474f687ca68b3ddd3bfe120e8f0 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > 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. I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. > Or to phrase it differently: news is dying out quickly and gentoo never missed > anything not having a newsgroups. Usenet is dying because it doesn't attract new users. The old ones are slowly dying out. If usenet dies I'll use something else. No problem. -- Regards, Gregory.