[CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Surprisingly, there were very few from the mailing lists in the first > Google 50 hits. As I mentioned there, the objective of the search is > not to compare which is more "popular" but simply to present the fact > that, when people go to Google and do a s

Re: [CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:22 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > You omit mentioning that (from tracking latencies to > appearing) the CentOS site, wiki, MLs, CentOS' planet are all > regularly trawled by major search engines.  The Forum and the > bug tracker are also indexed but less often. Earlier last y

Re: [CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: > >> What's a drive-by, and until a post is made and answered >> somewhere, how is a user supposed to know if a failure is >> caused by something local (mix of software, internet >> infrastructure), one repo mirror, or the basic >> infrastructure? > > Lemme change hats > >

[CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's a drive-by, and until a post is made and answered > somewhere, how is a user supposed to know if a failure is > caused by something local (mix of software, internet > infrastructure), one repo mirror, or the basic > infrastructure? Lemme chang

Re: [CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: > > Drive-bys and externalities are a problem and under the old > design the CentOS wiki was not such a pigsty; some other team > members lobbied for a less OCD approach on what is in and off > topic, and how 'spoon-feeding' was treated. The jury is still > out on this new a

[CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > Just to answer the aspect of why people in IRC tell you to > go to a mailing list – because mailing list answers are more > permanent that IRC, and also, it spreads the knowledge of > the question, and the answer over a much wider time frame > ra

[CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

2010-05-30 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Just to answer the aspect of why people in IRC tell you to go to a mailing list – because mailing list answers are more permanent that IRC, and also, it spreads the knowledge of the question, and the answer over a much wider time frame rather than just the two to three sentences that are involve