On Tuesday 24 January 2006 00:33, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-23 17:23:07]: > > How does Debian win from encouraging people to split off saying, "Don't > > use the mailing lists, use this third-party forum nobody uses instead?" > > it wins by reaching all those people who prefere using that third > party forum. > > there are a LOT of people (especially those coming from the > windows world or unfamiliar with automatic mail sorting) that are > very uneasy about mailing lists.
But nobody else would use them , so how would this help them? How is this different from the debian-newbie list idea that comes up from time to time, other than being an even less desirable interface for use? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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