[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

[Marc Paré]

  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