> Yes, Erik. But few users are old grey beards like us > that are comfortable with listserver and push > discussion. The newer generation interfaces > w/everything via the browser, e.g. witness web 2.0, > so the reality of the matter is that the majority of > posts come via Jive interface. And as in my opinion, > the suboptimal interaction betwixt the two leaves > Mailman as somewhat of second class citizen, the path > of least resistance for me was to ditch listserver > because it's pretty much impossible to fight the Jive > tide...
If there were a private NNTP server, I'd use it, as it would be a better fit for the model than Jive, which (at least in this particular deployment of it) hasn't even been all that reliable. It would certainly allow reading _much_ faster. However, it would probably have to be set up to authenticate (with os.o accounts) to keep the spammers out, and be isolated, i.e. not exchanging with other servers. And I have a feeling that a bunch of the folks under 30 wouldn't know where to find a newsreader client, anyway. As it is, I usually use the forums, not the mailing lists, although if I first notice a follow-up as an email, I may reply to that rather than finding it on the forum to reply there. (I'd use gmane.org, if all the forums corresponded to lists, and all the lists appeared there and could be posted to from there.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
