From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnu-emacs-help news->mail gateway
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:15:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=50j_cyurK9H7ON4prcwxbG69ttxkei+ev2DpA6sMPhKORYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhty7ga9vv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> The news->mail gateway for gnu-emacs-help (and most likely all lists)
> seems down, again, at the moment. The direction mail->news seems to be
> working ok.
>
> I reported it to sysadmin@gnu and it will presumably be fixed, but I
> wonder if it is time to deprecate the newsgroup interface in favour of
> the mailing lists? It seems hard to keep the gateway operating reliably.
> (It's already deprecated for bug reporting.)
>
> Someone might like to check what % of posts to gnu.emacs.help were made
> to the mailing list in the first instance.
>
>
Although I expect it is inevitable, I find it disappointing to see
news slowly being dropped as a communication channel. While I know
that the alternatives offer similar functionality, it does have an
impact. I personally don't like web based forums and I find my
participation in mail list based groups is far less.\ than for
newsgroups.
Tim
--
Tim Cross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 20:07 gnu-emacs-help news->mail gateway Glenn Morris
2011-10-10 21:15 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2011-10-10 21:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-10 21:52 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-10 22:36 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 2:39 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-11 3:05 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 14:38 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-10-11 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 21:39 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 23:29 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-12 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 2:51 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-11 0:02 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-11 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-18 7:47 ` Glenn Morris
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