Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoos community communication rant

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote:
> > Al,
> > 
> > Do everyone a favor. Go use Gmane and tell us what exactly
> > you'd be able to do that Gmane does not already do.
> > It's archived, search-able (via keywords) and many, many
> > other very cool features.
> 
> I do you favour and confirm that it is a very cool web interface to
> newsgroups. It is especially usefull if you have to switch between
> machines. It is good that they mirror the gentoo mailing lists and
> give them an archive. As long as you work from the same desktop a
> classical newsreader seems still more comfortable to me.
> 
> However, my concern was why the Gentoo community doesn't make use of
> those cool features and officially only advertises and keeps a mailing
> list, that has no history itself for example and how this approach
> influences and limits the culture of communication.
> 
> Al

wow, do you get paid for posting so much crap?

'Cool features'... 'no history', 'limits the culture of communication'.
No, no and no.

Wrong on all three. The mailing lists exist since the first days of gentoo. 
Almost all questions asked can be answered by a quick look into the archives. 
For some reason most people don't use archives.

And the fucking same is true with news. The only 'advantage' of news are:
more work for some poor sod responsible to keep the crap running.