> On 11 Jul 2025, at 09:58, Anssi Saari <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Andy Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are >> increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email >> intimidating. > > Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group > discussion) that's more palatable to the youngsters?
TikTok, with all the information they need in useful 4 second bites :-) Seriously, though, we’re all been frustrated by the changes happening to the web in general - it used to be you’d search for information and get lots of links to actual written documentation, but now you get a blend of AI generated nonsense or a ‘YouTube personality’ (whose channel seems to be just running through the installer of different distros). What a mailing list like this produces is a searchable archive of knowledge. I mean, look: https://lists.debian.org/search.html Imagine that! All the knowledge that gets shared here is searchable on a web page :) Granted, I’m an old fuddy-duddy who’s been using Linux since day 1 (and UNIX before then), but email is the *perfect* medium for this type of interaction. John -- John Dow <[email protected]> http://www.nelefa.org PVC:APKTIDQ4881ao2SFS0DZLOe7t6V0UwcuUV4x3dnkJR0TZsYX0usQ 
