On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 09:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf <kde.li...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 14:08 +0000, mailer-dae...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> OK, now this doesn't work anymore :D. However, not only the providers >>> are bad, Debian sees mail as spam, that isn't spam. >>> >>> I suspect the end of mailing lists is near :(. More and more people run >>> into issues when using mailing lists. The bad, without mailing lists >>> Linux will die! >> >> I like your overgeneralization and overdramatization! >> >> Thinking that lists will die because the mail providers that you're >> choosing are having issues doesn't mean that lists will die. I suspect >> that there are far more (FAR MORE) people who aren't having problems >> posting to d-u than people who are. > > This likely is an overdramatization I made, but I guess that indeed more > people have issues than you think. AFAIR, this list has a few thousand users and barely a handful have complained. >> Thinking that Linux will die once lists die is counting without forums >> and ask.ubuntu.com- and stackexchange.com-type discussions thingies. >> I'm not a fan of either of these formats but I'd adapt if need be to >> them or to yet another model. > > Assumed the overdramatization wouldn't be an overdramatization, then I'm > right and you're mistaken. Kernel development unlikely would be possible > by a forum, by ask.ubuntu.com etc.. Assumed there would be no mailing > lists, then it would be the end of Linux. LKML is a work list and this list is, relative to it, a chit-chat list. If mailing lists were to become unusable, LKML would switch very quickly to something else; its users wouldn't be happy about the change but everyone'd adapt quickly in order to carry on with kernel development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swkmxmlfrg_mvpfn1kkxdfrwswg4yrzfqwfnhfx+ch...@mail.gmail.com
