Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Max Pyziur wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
[...]
>>> I find the "users" list on fedoraproject challenging.
>>
>> Heh, heh. We can be touchy, here, too... but when someone comes in who's
>> actually read manpages, and googled, before coming here - in other
>> words, they don't expect us to do their jobs, just help them do it, we
usually
>> try to help.
>
> Aggressiveness is less of an issue. Getting good signal (relative to
> ad-hominem noise) is important.
>
> Twenty years ago, Usenet with a good reader got big/thick signal,
> especially on the tech lists.
>
> However since then, projects have become numerous and varied, as have
> sources of information (email lists, web-based discussions, etc). Finding
> good, clear, authoritative, and consistent "signal" is difficult,
> especially when you find yourself in a jam.
>
> And Usenet is effectively gone.
It's still there. And some newsgroups are still busy, though not like in
the good days of the early nineties.
mark, Big 8 newsgroup co-creator, ret'd
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