[kde-linux] OT hmmm, no posts for couple of days?

[Duncan]

Dale posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:02:24 -0500 as excerpted:

> david wrote:
>> just wondering ...
>>   
> Yep it's working still, at least mine and yours anyway.  LOL

The gmane.comp.kde.general newsgroup gets more action than 
gmane.comp.kde.linux (this one).

... Yes, I know they're mailing lists, but gmane carries them as 
newsgroups, as it does quite a few mailing lists, and that's how I prefer 
to read my lists, as that way all the list mail doesn't overwhelm my 
email... plus, I like the newsgroup interface better than mail anyway 
(tho they're similar), and DEFINITELY better than web forums, in 
general.  (/. is about the only exception, a web forum that I think works 
better that way than it would as a (set of) newsgroup(s), in part due to 
their scoring system.)

But the point still stands, the general kde list/group gets more traffic 
than we do here in the kde-linux list/group, partly because many of the 
issues are they types that would be cross-platform, and thus apply to 
more than just Linux.  (They probably apply to the BSDs and KDE/MSWormOS 
too.)  The fact that it gets more traffic tends to be self-sustaining, 
too, in that people are going to want to post where their message is most 
likely to be seen, which, upto a certain point anyway (LKML, the Linux 
kernel list, of course, is waaayyy beyond that point), is the busier 
group/list.

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