[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoos community communication rant

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2010-09-07, Al <oss.elmar@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> 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.

Just as importantly, it allows access to mailing lists using NNTP
clients.  I read all mailing lists using slrn.  I find the "news"
paradigm vastly superior to the "mail" paradigm for following mailing
lists.

Once in a while I use it for web access as well, but that's rare.

> 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.

I work from a variety of machines, and I still use the "classical
newsreader".  I do keep my .newsrc files at a central location where
they are used from all the machines where I run slrn.

> 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.

I'm afraid you lost me there.  Why does it matter where the archive is?

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