Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:17:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <199504232117.XAA02403@jette.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504231744.KAA03064@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Apr 23, 95 10:44:08 am
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> > The hackers list is already near 10 MB / month. I won't like to see > it further bloated. > > The -hackers mailing list reads like a newsgroup anyways, so two-way > gating will allow you to unsubscribe from -hackers and just read the > articles in the newsgroup you're interested in following. I still don't like it. Usenet is too slow to respond in a timely fashion, at least at this end of the world here. A fully two-way gateway would further bloat the list. 80 % of the questions asked in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc can easily be answered by 80 % of the user base out there. There is absolutely no need to ask this kind of stuff to the _developers_ of the system. Most of the people apparently lack a good unix introduction. The easier our install procedure will become, the larger this part of the newsgroup questions will grow. This is not to say that this is a bad thing, but IMHO, Usenet is better suited for a user <-> user support, while the mailing lists provide for a way to have user <-> developer interaction. We do need both. Jörg
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