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 1Ot0ly-000779-0P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:11:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6278E09C0; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:11:44 +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 82313E09C0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so6593153bwz.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:11:44 -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=9Myxbtgc7i4rywYnoWsC3e0labRjRUQqGlp8Y4eYvzM=; b=s6mIXd6lSFt1clUP9Yg/Co9pwuy1olNxppzL8ksdsdcbKqtZRa0R94dgLsmO0K/iOH TwSkDu49ckHrDa+hzqueWziQxsdwHVE52WXseqS3PDfMrk47mW8CSAUi6xSeOcQBF8/Y 7BOODepquO/TIG3l5KM/IFC237iXuV/1GBzbE= 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=Q+VtIMi9B/PnBJOPJAqNUgsVRAGOIf748KEWksrba67qCcHMo/Btl6iS9/+t1g3/s+ 3EVGSSKhxKcTLTKVBWi7tR+q30GkAdMczv9+BXIaYH4zMxRitItKtoC92zOTzYmQNK7p bIuH1k1X0Nk8voc8aB9gviAPgZtc2dxUGUxUk= Received: by 10.204.98.198 with SMTP id r6mr4464368bkn.51.1283875903522; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC0B35.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.11.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g12sm5425140bkb.2.2010.09.07.09.11.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:11:42 -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 18:11:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34.6r4; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C859A97.3030005@gmail.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: <201009071811.39196.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0bb4a107-1692-4daf-9d27-ea96b97fa9a7 X-Archives-Hash: 345b43720bd0f7e765eb8ff4223bac2c On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: > > going "Uh duh, why didn't I think of that" or "Thanks, I hadn't thought > > of that"), or b) the subject is something so far off the topic of Gentoo > > I want to specially point out this. I think it a good habit, to say > thank you. It motivates people to support and is always worth a > posting. I also think it a good habit to summarize the result of a > thread in a way, that makes it usefull for the archives. > > In a mailing list you experience such a postings as unnecessary load. > > Al there is no need for that. You can just SEARCH the archives. And there are a lot of them. From gentoo's own to MARC. So.. what does news bring to the table? More work? And what advantages? None at all. Strong points to support news. I see.