On 04/06/11 05:12, Remco Rijnders wrote:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:25:03PM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:04:10 AM
[email protected] wrote:
Yes, posting here achieved a faster result. But this is
not because ml
of users would be better. It is because you posted where
there was more
people available and less questions.
What I like about mailing lists/Usenet is:
(a) I see everrything that comes up. Good for general
education, when I am
not an IT person. I can't broswe a forum the same way;
perhaps that is just
me.
I'm much the same way. Posts to a mailing list I will read,
most things on a forum I just miss as it goes on. Only
exception to that mailing list rule is the Mageia bugs list,
there I do need to cherry pick what I read due to the
massive amounts of mail it gets.
Another thing I like is that I can sort, mark, filter and
read mails on a list in any way I like be it from home or at
work in a client of my own choice.
(b) the occasional humorous exchanges. Yes, they can get
out of hand, but not
too often.
Ditto. I think a mailing list is more likely to have humour
on it. Perhaps it is more likely to have flamewars on it
too, but I find that when I find that I'm losing my cool it
is best to take a few steps back from it, no matter what the
format is.
Remco
There's another point - as a lurker, being able to see in
the same mailing list both
(1) how things are developing
(2) how the problems are resolved
is a great reassurance to finally dipping my toes into
Mageia. Presumably this is what Mageia wants to encourage.
I imagine others might be in a similar situation, where they
would be put off trying to follow two lists, one full of
woes and the other mainly incomprehensible.
As an example of a very successful project, the mailing list
for Hugin has resisted splitting for much this sort of
reasoning.
Doug
