On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:51:05 +0000 > Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 3 January 2012 23:05, Linda McLeod <lindavaldeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (Would have elided that, but is there a real .fm TLD?) >> > users mailing list >> > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Either the moderators ban this user, or I'm unsubscribing. The >> signal-to-noise ratio is just too low at the moment and it's wasting >> my time. > > Most people already left for fedora forum and the like. The list is > basically not managed so its useless. If you want to fix that you need > to take it up with the fedora board I believe. The reason I'm not using the forums is that they are clumsy and full of people who don't seem to be able to use man. I like them for the not having to delete stuff from my mail box, and for reducing the overall burden on the web, but the signal-to-noise ratio there is not what I would call low. Don't have time to write a full analysis here, but this touches on something I posted a riff on yesterday: http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2012/01/mailing-lists-vs-e-mail-e.html Anyway, as several have noted already, the "mass migration" to the forums is not what it would seem, for several reasons. -- Joel Rees -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
