On 10 June 2012 20:40, Kwpolska <kwpolska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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: +1 here. I see most of the emails posted on the MLs and read some of interest to me but I have not read forum for ages... -- Guillaume
