[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

Sun Sep 19 15:33:42 CEST 2010

  Le 2010-09-19 09:16, William Bagwell a écrit :
+> On Sunday 19 September 2010, Maurice wrote:
+>>    Yes, that would be a good move, but personally I would prefer a
+>> newsgroup (simply because it's more convenient), if that were
+>> possible.
+> I would love to see this too, but would prefer it be a private server
+> newsgroup rather than a true usenet newsgroup. (One of those will happen
+> as soon as someone sends a control message and there is nothing we can do
+> to stop it) A private server newsgroup can be controlled in ways usenet
+> groups can not be...
+>
+> And *this* mailing list can be gated to the newsgroup once it is up and
+> running as Mailman already has a "Mail<->News gateways" built in.
+
+Unfortunately, ISP's are in the habit of dropping Usenet access these 
+days. The are fewer and fewer access points to the Usenet. Sign of the 
+times.
+
+There should definitely be a formal mailist and forum board under the 
+umbrella of the Mageia group. That way, the Mageia community will be in 
+charge of its own communication process rather than be at the mercy of 
+potential whim of mailist/forum owners. It is difficult to control and 
+disseminate information when you are not in control of your own 
+advertising tools. One just has to look at any formal foundation group 
+who have gone through this process.
+
+Marc
+