On Fri, 2023-05-05 at 08:37 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
George N. White III wrote:
> Fedora provides:
>
> NAME
> fpaste - A cli frontend for the
>
paste.fedoraproject.org pastebin
>
> SYNOPSIS
> fpaste [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>
> DESCRIPTION
> It is often useful to be able to easily paste
> text to the Fedora Pastebin at
>
http://paste.fedoraproject.org and this simple
> utility will do that and return the resulting URL
> so that people may examine the output. This can
> hopefully help folks who are for some reason stuck
> without a graphical interface, working remotely, or
> any other reason they may be unable to paste
> something into the pastebin using a web browser.
Those pastes expire after 24 hours -- at most. Anyone who
doesn't read the thread within that time won't be able to
see the context. I consider that a strong reason to avoid
it for mailing list posts.
I think trimming what's sent is preferable. To me, one of
the great values of a mailing list is the ability for others
to read and learn from it later. If we treat it as a
transient support tool, we're losing that value.
I couldn't agree more, which is one reason (among others) why I dislike
the tendency towards Discourse and similar tools. Discussion threads on
Discourse actually expire after a certain time, IIRC 14 days by
default, yet Gnome is actively promoting this and has shut down many of
its support lists on
gnome.org as a result. We had to move the
Evolution list elsewhere to keep it going.
poc