From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnu-emacs-help news->mail gateway Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:52:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318283586 27767 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2011 21:53:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 23:53:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmP-00078P-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:53:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmP-0005H3-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmL-0005Gn-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmK-000451-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmK-00044x-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:52:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDNmK-0005ON-3Z; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:52:56 -0400 X-Spook: pre-emptive Armani S Key national information X-Ran: ~Xn-=1u6Ci^m*K7!c$1xT%P-d"i!/]4[7KnuMm5qp=bOi7kuPLeb>1LLux(KVnTG'E7~Y( X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144827 Archived-At: Tim Cross wrote: > I personally don't like web based forums and I find my participation > in mail list based groups is far less.\ than for newsgroups. A mailing list is not the same thing as a "web based forum" (I dislike those too), so I don't understand this comment. And you read and replied pretty quickly to my message using a mailing list, so lists can't be unusable. :) I don't personally see much of a difference between a mailing list and a newsgroup (mailing lists have subscription and less spam?), but you can read mailing lists via news if you prefer at http://gmane.org/. I was only saying "deprecate" the newsgroup. As it stands, I basically have to read both gnu.emacs.help and help-gnu-emacs to be certain of seeing every message. I'd prefer to increase the odds of seeing everything in one place, and one obvious way to do that is to encourage people to only use one place.