Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:07:06 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <200801131107.15267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20080112135630.I36731@fledge.watson.org> References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <20080112145146.6f196ede.timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> <20080112135630.I36731@fledge.watson.org>
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--nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's > > primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there. > > There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing > list-centric community driven by people who are very much part of the > e-mail world. For many newer computer users, e-mail is the old > world, and the new world is instant messaging and web forums. Many > developers I've talked to feel quite uncomfortable with the medium of > web forums, and therefore don't tend to use them. If our newer user > communities are forming around web forums (i.e., for PC-BSD), then we > do need to find some way to bridge the gap. A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like email=20 for oldies to use :) Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper.... =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHiV075ZPcIHs/zowRAnZ+AJ9dQgfECsTjlDg6m3amoZavjY9ogQCdEuJF 9E5ypEmLbJBc2xPjxQD1ihY= =26l6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2359543.4VsVIOe17S--
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