On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Gerard Beekmans
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> consider myself in the ol fashion category. All of my news& updates
>>> comes in the form of email for the most part. Other then that, have a
>>> list of bookmarked sites I open up in tabs via Firefox.
>>>
>>> I usually have access to email though (Gmail, so as long as I have a
>>> browser), and I know there have been some major shifts in how people
>>> communicate over the internet the last decade or so... but forums
>>> always felt like 2nd class citizens to email for me.
>>>
>>> There are some forums out there with a subscribe via email for updates
>>> though... that may not be as bad
>>
>> I used to share the sentiment of forums feeling like 2nd class citizens
>> as you called it. There has definitely been a shift in the last few
>> years which is why I wanted to explore the idea versus sticking to old
>> systems for the sake of sticking to old systems.
>>
>> "Why fix what isn't broken?" Very valid.
>> "Change and experimentation are good". Also valid.
>>
>> Gerard
>
> well, if they advance our cause, I'm all for it.
>
> but to take a page from the select vs polling discussion
>
> I would rather the forum/mailing list told me there was a new message
> as opposed to me checking 2-4 times a day for updates. Ideally with
> the contents of the post as well.
also, (looking at my own usage), I monitor
{,b}lfs-{book,dev,support}},lfs-chat, wix, wine, xorg, mesa, grub,
coreboot, freedos. It is nice having all the news in a single
application (albet, different folders).
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