From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 14:21:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA07554 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:21:18 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA07537 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:21:06 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05826; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:20:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10364 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:20:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by jette.heep.sax.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id XAA02403 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:17:14 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504232117.XAA02403@jette.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:17:12 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504231744.KAA03064@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Apr 23, 95 10:44:08 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1067 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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