On 11/10/21 3:05 am, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
piorunz <pior...@gmx.com> wrote on 10/10/2021 at 19:45:12+0200:
On 10/10/2021 17:13, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Hi Piotr,
No - it's a nuisance. In this instance, it's an isolated nuisance - one VPS
host in OVH.net which may be misconfigured, accidentally
or purposefully. Listmasters are aware - several of us have contacted them.
It's an annoyance (much as when old-style spammers used
to harvest email addresses to apparently send spam from): it will go away again.
Forums work for some people, they don't for others - people have very different
styles. Email is fairly readily mirrored, very searchable,
compresses well and the mailing lists are threaded. I can find mailing list
postings from 23 years ago fairly readily - I can't find
posts on some forums from three months ago. As ever: Your ideal solution may be
somebody else's hell (and vice versa) and people can argue
merits either way until they're blue in the face with no absolute conclusion.
Thanks for your input. Your post has merit. I agree with most of what
you said.
I just wish Debian maintains online forums so people have a choice?
AFAIK https://forums.debian.net/ is not official, not long time ago they
didn't even had https. Now they do, but their main page debian.net still
incorrectly redirects to debian.org via http, not https. IDK who is the
operator but doesn't sound professional.
Apart from needing people to maintain the service (and a dynamic website
requires someone, otherwise good luck to pass DSA's stamp), it would
probably split our community onto multiple media and make them probably
unable to talk in the long term.
I'm not sure it's a path we want to walk on.
Cheers,
--
PEB
Thank you for making that point.
It is an issue that I consider, whenever people on the mailing lists to
which I subscribe, say "let's switch to a forum.".
Mailing lists are universally accessible, regardless of the software
used, and, to split support communities, by imposing fora and such, is
simply divisive, and, apart from being divisive, can cause issues to be
raised separately, with the same solutions sought, and, needing to be
provided, in each applicable medium, leading to much (the multiple sense
of the word) duplication.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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