In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: >> >> I was trying to figure this out myself. I thought maybe I was missing >> >> something in the message. Maybe not. >> > >> > Isn't the list aggregated into that news site gmain or whatever its >> > called? >> > Then he can have it as a newsgroup. >> >> It's not the question how I read it, but a question how a majority of >> users can read and write to it. That influences the culture and >> athmosphere of communication. Also I think Volkers remark was very >> ironical else he should best go back to his dishes. >> >> Al > > up until today nobody ever mentioned news. Everybody was happy using mailing > lists, forums or irc.
I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. > Or to phrase it differently: news is dying out quickly and gentoo never > missed > anything not having a newsgroups. Usenet is dying because it doesn't attract new users. The old ones are slowly dying out. If usenet dies I'll use something else. No problem. -- Regards, Gregory.
