On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik <jayesh.badwaik90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>> >>> I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers >>> use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people >>> registered to the Arch Forums? >>> >>> Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted? >>> >>> Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums traffic >>> is order of magnitude larger than the traffic on the lists. >> >> I don't think I answer your question directly but still... >> I believe people who use a desktop mail client prefer mailing list while >> those who use the web interface for mail like gmail.com etc prefer >> forums. This especially works if you are a long term mailing list user >> and use POP3 mail and hence can search for question using your mail >> client search. > > The reason I posted request for some statistics, is that > users may be confused about where to send their requests > in order to reach the very core of the Arch community. > Certainly, variety is good as people have freedom of choice, > but freedom of choice has side effects too. > > Anyway, I was just curious what part of developers and users > are subscribed to the mailing list and what part use forums. I, for one, am subscribed to the lists (arch-announce, arch-dev-public, arch-general, aur-general) and also have a forums account. The difference is I read 90% of the mails I get (ignoring the signoff reports or other useless messages) and I haven't been on the forums since a few years. Not quite sure how this works for others. > Also, are all Arch developers subscribed to the mailing lists? Most likely, yes. > > Best regards, > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:
