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 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.... -- 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
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