[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

Sun Sep 19 19:38:50 CEST 2010

  Le 2010-09-19 13:14, Maurice a écrit :
+> On 2010-09-19 at 14:44 Sinner said:
+>
+>> I love USENET, been on it since mid 90's. But it's dying
+>    There's no sign of that among the many newsgroups that I
+> follow, and that includes a very active and priceless Mandriva
+> newsgroup, as well as e.g. SuSE, and other non-Linux groups.
+>
+> It's so much more convenient to follow and respond to new
+> postings, compared with web fora - given a good newsreader app.
+I teach at a school board and advise on the IT team committee, on that 
+committee very few members know what Usenet is all about; none of the 
+teachers at my elementary school know about Usenet (never heard of it!); 
+my two sons, one at University 3rd year and the other grade 7, both have 
+never used Usenet nor can they come up with a single person they know 
+who use Usenet. I publish an online music magazine and get feeds from 
+20-30 groups all mailists (deluged with mail) and the couple of music 
+related Usenet groups may post only 2-3 messages every 3-4 months; I 
+participate on a couple of developer groups (software) and they do not 
+use Usenet but mailists; and the list goes on ....
+
+I am also on the Mandriva news group and considering the amount of 
+people who use Mandriva, very few seem to make use of the group, and in 
+contrast, the Mandriva forums were pretty active and the official 
+reps/moderators were at least there to listen and respond. I don't 
+believe that any Mandriva rep. was ever on the news group or if they 
+were, they were not too visible.
+
+In my opinion, a usenet group would be a nice perk but could also strain 
+the Mageia group resources too thin.
+
+Marc
+