I don't follow the forums, and I don't use get_iplayer often. But when I do I'm moderately up to date with the current situation thanks to this list.
If the list stopped I'd probably stop using get_iplayer and turn to other means for the occasional programme I want on iPlayer. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK > On 16 May 2016, at 19:32, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 00:38 +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote: >> >> Stop the OT poltical campainging posts: >> "Over 275,000 of us signed an emergency petition to keep the BBC >> independent" >> >> List is for GiP discussion and help ONLY. >> >> Respect that and take politics elsewhere. > > I have barred that thread, although I don't generally favour censorship > as a solution to anything. > > However... it seems that this list is mostly used these days for > offtopic crap, and for technical queries which get referred to the > forums. > > Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better > off shutting it down entirely? > > Likewise the git repository on git.infradead.org — if development is > happening on github, there's no point in just mirroring it here, is > there? I was happy to provide services (and even try to learn a bit of > perl) when Phil Lewis bowed out, but it now seems that there's a fairly > capable community around it and it's not clear what benefit I continue > to provide... > > -- > dwmw2 > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
