Martin Cooper wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, David Smiley wrote:
Hello all. I love using GMANE ( http://www.gmane.org ) to access
mailing lists because:
1. one stop mailing-list shopping -- a consistent experience
2. NNTP access
3. easiest path to posting a question to a list that you're not a
member of, examining the responses, and then leaving.
IMHO, this is actually a reason to *not* provide a link to Gmane on our
site, since it's anti-community, and community is what we are about.
I don't think GMANE is anti-community, but I'll grant you that my #3
_use-case_ of newsgroups / GMANE is debatable. I can use GMANE to stay
in touch with a community just as I can with mailing lists directly.
I understand where you're coming from... but if I were to follow your
principal strongly then I'd probably have no time to develop code since
I'd be busy keeping up with at least a dozen "communities". Your policy
suggests one should have strong ties with a community (by being on the
mailing list and presumably scanning it) or divorce themselves from it
completely. I don't think your extreme is fair to those who want to be
inbetween. A great reason for my use-case, I think, is a bug report. I
don't want to become part of the community because I just have no time.
But I do want to contribute a bug report and be a good user of the
software.
~ David Smiley
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