On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:51:05 +0000
Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 January 2012 23:05, Linda McLeod <lindavaldeen(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
(Would have elided that, but is there a real .fm TLD?)
> > users mailing list
> > users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> Either the moderators ban this user, or I'm unsubscribing. The
> signal-to-noise ratio is just too low at the moment and it's wasting
> my time.
Most people already left for fedora forum and the like. The list is
basically not managed so its useless. If you want to fix that you need
to take it up with the fedora board I believe.
The reason I'm not using the forums is that they are clumsy and full
of people who don't seem to be able to use man.
I like them for the not having to delete stuff from my mail box, and
for reducing the overall burden on the web, but the signal-to-noise
ratio there is not what I would call low.
Don't have time to write a full analysis here, but this touches on
something I posted a riff on yesterday:
http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2012/01/mailing-lists-vs-e-mail-e....
Anyway, as several have noted already, the "mass migration" to the
forums is not what it would seem, for several reasons.
--
Joel Rees