On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:20:24 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Monday 28 June 2010 00:32:31 Per Jessen wrote:
I guess that mail lists are just what people are used to, not what is better.
Let's not start that one.
Why not?
It is not talk about what someone likes, but it is about choosing between medium that was not created for open communication (email) and one that was (usenet).
Sorry, I thought you were discussing mailing lists vs webfora.
[snip - big discussion of nntp, usenet and email]
Socially, mail lists are good to reinforce feeling of inner circle, which is exactly opposite from few times stated openSUSE goals.
Whether or not they are good for that purpose is irrelevant as long as we don't use them for it. I don't think mailing lists automatically reinforce some or other idea of an inner circle. (inner circles usually don't have thousands of members).
If we want openness, then we should not patch email service to allow what forums via NNTP had since ever, but use forums. It is simple to setup and use.
Rajko, I'm not sure I quite understand what you're saying here, but if you're promoting webfora, I strongly disagree.
I think we need to be clearer that we're not talking about two communications mediums here, but three. 1. Web Forums: forums.opensuse.org:80 - HTML/BBCode interface with a fair amount of 'gimmicks'. 2. NNTP Newsgroups: forums.opensuse.org:119 - uses the older NNTP protocol, is provided through a gateway to the web forums, but is otherwise completely separate, just hosted on the same machine as the web forums. 3. Mailing Lists: Shouldn't need any explanation, given that's where this discussion is taking place. :-) We bridge #1 and #2 (but not to USENET, it's a private NNTP server in that regard). Much the same way that the MLs are bridged to NNTP through gmane.org (which is how I access them). Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org