Hi, On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 17:06:34, jdd wrote:
Henne Vogelsang wrote:
p.s. Thats one short minded thing i observe here everytime we have a discussion about something that involves setting something up / coding something / packaging something. Its soo easy to do, just get X from foo.org and do Y with it. Of course thats easy. Everybody knows that. But commiting longterm to a solution is something completely different!
that's not fair.
Why is that?
In the beginning, why write a new distribution? debian is nice, red hat is nice (ad libitum).
Thats comparing Apples and Oranges. I dont want to write my own nntp like protocol and server/client to implement the hyperfast opensuse group with many new features and concepts. I want the opensuse mailinglists to be accessable by nntp.
the point is: do we want to have _our members_ in _our room_
when I buy shoes, I have all the products for the shoes in the same place, the vendor don't say: go there to find, if not I will go elsewhere.
Again comparing Apples and Oranges. To get opensuse mainlinglists over nntp it makes no significant difference if i connect my nntp client to news.opensuse.org or news.gmane.org.
the problem is : does this thing asks for many works, any day, or for a half day once a year? is this work well placed?
Yes it does. It is significant more work to setup and maintain an nntp server on opensuse.org then to point users who want nntp to news.gmane.org. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)