Stuart Herbert posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:56:19 +0000:
>> Reading gentoo-announce should be mandatory. > > I think that statement ignores a basic human truth - that not every user > likes using mailing lists. Just like not every user likes using forums. While you have a point, note that lists aren't the /only/ way posts to announce get spread. As I mentioned in a post to a different subthread, the real circulation of announce is far higher. I and presumably a decent number of others read it thru gmane's list2news gateway. (As you say, not everyone likes mail, I prefer news.) As announce will be read-only for most folks, those reading it there won't subscribe thru Gentoo in digest or vacation mode as they do with this list, for instance. LWN.net is another well recognized source for news in the Linux community, and they cover Gentoo well enough that it's where I first got interested in Gentoo. (I also rate LWN highly enough that I'm willing to pay them real money for a subscription, a rare thing for internet news sites, beyond the WSJ at least.) Currently, LWN covers releases, GLSAs, and of course GWN. LWN probably gets the GLSAs and release announcements thru the announce list (and likely gets GWN thru its list), so would cover other news, if posted to announce, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
