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

[Al <oss.elmar@googlemail.com>]

> 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