Hi Philippe, Interesting post :-). I don't have time right now to answer all the pros you mention for newsgroups, so I'll just throw in a couple of things that I think is flawed in your suggestion (rude, perhaps! sorry!). Philippe A. wrote: > I guess you know what newsgroups are, and that they existed before Google. > What Google did is to index them into their database. > They did not only that, they also created a > great web interface to browse them. Actually DejaNews did that and then Google bought DejaNews, AFAIR. > > ) Not everyone has a Gmail account (required to post through Groups) > > ) Not everyone is adept to using Gmane > > Right. But not everyone is adept of (mailing lists|newsgroups|forums|you > name it). That's not the question. The question was how we thought things > could be improved. The point was that everyone knows how a browser works. Newsgroups might be too technical to engage in for newcomers, especially if they're already *very* busy trying to make this new software they've downloaded (Wine) work and everything's failing right and left around their ears with odd 'FontForge' messages, seh_exception overflows and what not. > Costs (worse first in my own opinion): > - Convince existing users to configure their newsreader. I think the above point is enough to be a showstopper for the newsgroup approach. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
