On Sat, 18 May 2013 18:27:03 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hallo, > >IMO the moderated Arch general list became a good list for technically >issues and for briefly and succinctly objective discussions. This >shouldn't change. First I didn't like it, but now I can see the >advantages of such a list. > >What IMO is missing for Arch Linux is a separated mailing list for >longer, subjective discussions. I'm aware that this is possible using >the forums, but for my taste a mailing list is more comfortable to use. Even more efficient and comfortable, a usenet newsgroup. I /really/ don't like the clunky sluggish and bloated things that web forums are. Mailing lists are better, but the combination of a newsgroup with a good newsreader program (or even with a combined email+usenet client such as 'Thunderbird' or 'Claws Mail') is still more convenient. The Arch depositories include a good selection of usenet software. >I wonder if there's an interest for such a mailing list and if somebody >has got the knowledge and is willing to set up such a mailing list. [...] The infrastructure for newsgroups is very well established (it predates the internet, but is of course accessed via the internet now). Unless 'moderation' is required, no particular effort or commitment is required from anyone once a new newsgroup has been 'created'. Participants do have to set up their software to 'subscribe' to the new newsgroup, but I don't think any Arch users would be daunted by that. Some ISPs have ceased to include a usenet service, but there are plenty of public news-servers to choose from, some of them free of charge, and others very economical. Usenet is 'plain text only' (apart from the 'binary groups' which are really something entirely different) and inherently 'off-line', just as email is (although you can use 'on-line mode' if you want to). >What do you think about an additional mailing list for discussions that >are OT for Arch generell? > >Regards, >Ralf > I'd support a proposal for a new newsgroup, preferably in the alt.os.linux hierarchy where there are already several distro-specific groups. I think some of the things currently discussed in Arch web forums would benefit from being moved into newsgroups; discussion of the wonderful web browser 'dwb' springs to mind, currently happening in the 'Community Contributions' web forum and almost impossible to research. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
