On Monday 06 September 2010, Al wrote: > Hi, > > being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical > heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. > At least a news server is not offically announced on > http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read > some, not all of the lists via infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.) > > Well, there are mailinglists. But mailinglists send each message to > everybody producing a lot of traffic overhead. As as result people are > socially driven to reduce the amount of messages. The lists are dead > early while IRC still is active. > > By this a lot of interesting solutions are lost to effective web > search. The buzz in IRC doesn't result in a web searchable > documentation. It is rubbish the moment after it was written. Also it > is not everybodies taste only to send small messages and to paste > elsewhere when the stuff exceeds 2 lines of code. > > Then there are some Gentoo web forums out there. Now that is really > slow, moving tons of HTML for every single posting. Valuable > information is scattered all around. Do we think intelligent people to > limited to install a Thunderbird to read news, so that people are to > driven to web forums like housewifes, that only know the web as > webpages? > > When comparing Gentoo with other communities it has very good > documentation but communication could be better. I am missing the > heart of it. > > Al
wtf are you talking about? and who is using news anyway?
