Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups

2005-01-03 Thread Andreas Davour
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to

Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups

2005-01-02 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported

Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 02), Sergei Gnezdov said: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. You can use gmane.org to read almost all of the FreeBSD lists via nntp.