On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 22:24 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Anyway, if non-subscribers are not welcome, then I guess I'll just >> refrain from posting here just like everybody else, even when I'm >> asked to do it on Fedora's bugzilla. > > Ah, so the hundreds of people who regularly contribute here are all a > figment of my imagination? I said everybody *else*; nobody knows the amount of people that have wanted to contact Fedora mailing list and have decided not to. > One point that hasn't been mentioned: Fedora is an *experimental* > distro. The people using are are assumed to know that and to be up to > communicating about problems and solutions. If you only want to post a > single question and don't monitor the list on a regular basis, I have to > ask if you should really be using Fedora at all. I regard that as > sufficient justification for the must-subscribe policy. You assume that people would use Fedora mailing lists only for questions; that's not always the case. There are people out there that know what they are doing, and have good ideas about what a distro should do. But somehow it seems nobody here believes Fedora's community can benefit from outsiders. -- Felipe Contreras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
