From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 00:37:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D93916A41A; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:37:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C7A13C459; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-39-232.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.39.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0D0bLpC033825 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:07:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:07:06 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <20080112145146.6f196ede.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> <20080112135630.I36731@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20080112135630.I36731@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801131107.15267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.389 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= , Timo Schoeler , Robert Watson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:37:35 -0000 --nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's > > primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there. > > There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing > list-centric community driven by people who are very much part of the > e-mail world. For many newer computer users, e-mail is the old > world, and the new world is instant messaging and web forums. Many > developers I've talked to feel quite uncomfortable with the medium of > web forums, and therefore don't tend to use them. If our newer user > communities are forming around web forums (i.e., for PC-BSD), then we > do need to find some way to bridge the gap. A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like email=20 for oldies to use :) Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper.... =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHiV075ZPcIHs/zowRAnZ+AJ9dQgfECsTjlDg6m3amoZavjY9ogQCdEuJF 9E5ypEmLbJBc2xPjxQD1ihY= =26l6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S--