Pete Collins wrote: > As part of the migration to the new server, I'd like to know how many > people use the Mozdev newsgroups.
As a reader, I use them almost exclusively as compared with mailing lists (project_owners being the only exception), since newsgroups are easier to handle by far. As a project owner, the Mnenhy project *deliberately* doesn't even have a mailing list, just a newsgroup. > I think we would rather ditch the newsgroups and just use mailing lists > as it is one less service to worry about. Please don't. The great advantage of newsgroups is that you don't get spammed with mails on faintly interesting topics. If you have the spare time (or a problem), you just read (or post to) the group /then/. (And - in theory - postings are stored once (on the server) and not for each reader separetely (as mails).) For example: n.m.enigmail It gets a fair amount of traffic, but I only read or post to it occasionally. I for sure don't want the whole of that stuff get mailed! > Thoughts? Please keep the news server, having project related NGs is part of MozDev's success IMHO... Karsten _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
