Hi Uday, Life used to be simple. Like when we had a few major television networks and not a proliferation of hundreds of cable channels.
I used to go to Google and read gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs, gnu.emacs.vm.info and perhaps gnu.emacs.sources & comp.emacs.xemacs. In those places I would find like-minded people and high quality discussion--for the most part. Pre-dating Google groups, it was Dejanews and before that it was actual newsfeeds, stored locally for one's perusal (I was a Gnus user then). Now we have a proliferation of discussion sites across the internet--similar to the proliferation of cable television channels. A person can try to stick to a few places with relevant and reasonable quality content for the subject of interest & beyond that it is a matter of trusting to the best-choice Internet search engine. In the summer you recommended to VM users a move from Google group gnu.emacs.vm.info to gmane.emacs.viewmail (https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/viewmail-info). Now you are bringing Stackoverflow into the mix. Are you recommending a move from gmane.emacs.viewmail ([email protected]) to Stackoverflow? It is now not clear to me what you would recommend go to gmane.emacs.viewmail ([email protected]) and what you would recommend go to Stackoverflow. http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ says: "The News groups gnu.emacs.vm.info and gnu.emacs.vm.bug are deprecated and posting to them is not advisable. Please use the viewmail-info mailing list for general discussion and the launchpad tracker for bug reports instead." What will that read like in the future, after including Stackoverflow in the mix? Cheers, Alan Uday Reddy writes: > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Question #108267]: stunnel on Windows > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:25:54 -0000 > From: Uday Reddy <[email protected]> > > Question #108267 on VM changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/vm/+question/108267 > > Uday Reddy posted a new comment: > Alan Wehmann writes: > > > I took a look at > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6008917/setup-for-gmail-in-emacs-vm > > > > and see nothing there that is specific to using SMTP on Windows with > > Emacs, which is one of the subjects of usr345's question. An answer for > > Unix (or Linux) doesn't deal with the peculiarities of MS Windows. What > > did I miss? > > Then the user can ask the question there about how to get it to work on > Windows. The question can be tagged with "Windows", "Emacs", "gmail", > "starttls", "smtp" etc. and the people that monitor those tags will be able > to give better answers than we can. > > More generally, stackoverflow has a much better infrastructure for questions > & answers than Launchpad does. So, I would like us to move there for > questions & answers. > > Cheers, > Uday > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a direct > subscriber of the question. -- Alan Wehmann [email protected]
