On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > I also agree with the rest of your post (and see no reason to quote it > in its entirety :-), but I wonder if we're all just rearranging the > deckchairs on the Titanic when it comes to mailing lists. I have the > impression that the whole ml thing is actually a poor man's Usenet, > invented because everyone has mail. Years ago I tried to promote a > (local) News structure in my University as a medium of discussion, and > there was just no way I could get people to use it. The old saying "to a > guy with a hammer, every problem is a nail" applies here. Alternative > mechanisms such as bboards etc. also just didn't cut the mustard because > people are *very* reluctant to learn a new tool unless the benefit to > them (not to the institution) is immediately clear. Indeed... I think there are benefits to both, but I admit that I stopped using Usenet some years ago. Targeted lists such as this one work for me because the volume of mail is manageable. At the same time, I do notice that mailing lists tend to make silos of information. This is a benefit for certain specific information (e.g., purely CentOS related discussion) but for more general information there is a lot of duplication. I've always for some method of aggregating multiple mailman lists into a custom list. Not certain how it would work, but perhaps a keyword header would do the trick. I use RSS for some sites, but it would not work for the volume of mail in a typical list. Right now I am subscribing to multiple lists and using keywords in the Google mail client to create topics for my interests (e.g., Xen/KVM, image editing, etc..). But that means I need to keep thousands of messages from the dozen or so lists to which I am subscribed. > > So now we're having to consider Facebook, Twitter, you-name-it. Yech. -- 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
