On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:12:56PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > Okay. So I guess the DU ML should just close up shop > > > > and be done with it. > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and > > > frumpy compared to web forums. > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > No, kids are lazy and don't want to learn how to research, > > or do the research themselves. > > Y'know, that may be true of many people, older and younger, > but I'd just like to stick up for some of the people my age. > There definitely are those who tend to think that forums are > much worse for communication than are mailing lists, and > also those who are more than willing to do some research in > order to get things working right and/or improve upon them > (if there's room). I promise. >
I agree. A lot of kids these days don't bother using Google, and most of them don't even try searching mailing list archives. I'll admit that sometimes I don't Google stuff, but usually it's when I can't think of WHAT to Google. > > > You can't point and click on anything in slrn or mutt. > > > Isn't that why there's icedove, sylpheed, kmail...? > > See, I guess that's part of the weirdness of being me, but > personally I try to turn off any "feature" that requires me > to use the mouse in order to access it. So again, "kids > these days" aren't *all* about flash and fancy show. > I completely agree with this; If I wasn't bound to always have to monitor my battery life and wireless signal graphically (Because I'm on a laptop) I'd probably be using Ion3 or wmii instead of Window Maker. Oh, and the point of this mail is that I too fall into the "Young" group, seeing as I'm seventeen. While most of my friends have spent half the day boasting about how AOL has a new layout, I've been trying to get a LUG set up in my local area. -- http://digital-haze.net/~pobega/ - My Website If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
