On 13/01/2008, at 11:37 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's
primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there.
There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing
list-centric community driven by people who are very much part of the
e-mail world. For many newer computer users, e-mail is the old
world, and the new world is instant messaging and web forums. Many
developers I've talked to feel quite uncomfortable with the medium of
web forums, and therefore don't tend to use them. If our newer user
communities are forming around web forums (i.e., for PC-BSD), then we
do need to find some way to bridge the gap.
A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like
email
for oldies to use :)
Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :(
(eg Papercut)
Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper....
This may be useful to some people:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current
I know that I read several FreeBSD lists using an OSX nntp reader and
it works very nicely. gmane offers most of the FreeBSD lists as nntp
and web interfaces, even allowing posting back to the list. If
appropriate, perhaps FreeBSD should link [1] back to gmane to make
finding this easier.
Ari
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
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