On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:25:03PM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:04:10 AM [email protected] wrote:Yes, posting here achieved a faster result. But this is not because ml of users would be better. It is because you posted where there was more people available and less questions.What I like about mailing lists/Usenet is: (a) I see everrything that comes up. Good for general education, when I am not an IT person. I can't broswe a forum the same way; perhaps that is just me.
I'm much the same way. Posts to a mailing list I will read, most things on a forum I just miss as it goes on. Only exception to that mailing list rule is the Mageia bugs list, there I do need to cherry pick what I read due to the massive amounts of mail it gets.
Another thing I like is that I can sort, mark, filter and read mails on a list in any way I like be it from home or at work in a client of my own choice.
(b) the occasional humorous exchanges. Yes, they can get out of hand, but not too often.
Ditto. I think a mailing list is more likely to have humour on it. Perhaps it is more likely to have flamewars on it too, but I find that when I find that I'm losing my cool it is best to take a few steps back from it, no matter what the format is.
Remco
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