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. Or to phrase it differently: news is dying out quickly and gentoo never missed anything not having a newsgroups.