From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 12:39:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00380 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:39:46 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00370 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:39:34 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA28580; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 20:40:09 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504221940.UAA28580@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 20:40:09 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504221938.NAA02298@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 22, 95 01:38:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1205 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Nate Williams who said > > > What do people think about a full hackers<->comp.os.freebsd gateway then? > > I'm against it for the reasons already given, which mostly include the > signal/noise ratio. > > Even the Linux developers have given up on the newsgroups and do most of > the work in mailing lists. I *rarely* see any postings from Linus, and > there are only 2-3 developers who answer questions anymore. I'm not going to push strongly for this but I'll make one last point. I'm only talking about hackers, which is not a development list and isn't even that technical, it more of a general discussion list and really plays the role that the newsgroup should. If we did set up a gateway then I guess the role will evolve and if it does get noisy people will drop from it and use -current instead. I don't see this being such a bad thing really and it would show the wider newsgroup audience that we're actually a pretty active project. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.