From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 14:56:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA04425 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 14:56:51 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA04419 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 14:56:48 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id RAA05328; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:55:18 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504222155.RAA05328@hda.com> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504221940.UAA28580@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Apr 22, 95 08:40:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1793 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards writes: > > 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. > Our mailing list definition: > freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions ... > freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current I don't mind having "questions" gated to the newsgroup. I don't want to see hackers gated. IMHO, -current isn't for technical talk, it is for "BE SURE YOU RECOMPILE CONFIG" and other notes specifically pertaining to running -current. If -hackers isn't technical which lists are? Also, which are the development lists? Am I missing out on a whole bunch of good technical discussion about FreeBSD? Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267