I hate mailing lists

[William M. Quarles]

Aaron Matteson wrote:
> William M. Quarles became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
> 
>>shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>>
>>>William M. Quarles wrote:
>>>
>>>>As my first post on this list, I'd just like to say:
>>>>
>>>>I HATE MAILING LISTS!
>>>>
>>>>Why can't we have newsgroups?
>>>
>>>i hate newsgroups
>>>
>>>http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>>>
>>>nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>>>http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>>
>>Why do you hate newsgroups?
> 
> 
> I guess everyone has to hate something, but a couple people not liking
> something is hardly a reason to change soemthing that works perfectly
> fine.
> 
> I might suggest if these methods annoy you then please come up with
> something better.
> 

Someone already did.  Newsgroups.  I understand that a lot of you are 
suggesting gmane.org, but I find ironic that you do so while their whole 
mission statement points directly to the fact that two-way mass 
communication is inefficient with mailing lists and is meant for newsgroups:

"Free software is mainly developed on mailing lists. Mailing lists have 
many advantages over other forms of communication, but they have two 
weaknesses: It's difficult to follow discussions in a sensible way, and 
mailing list archives (when they exist) have a tendency to disappear 
over time.

"Several mailing list archives exist, but these are all hidden under a 
web interface. Reading mail that way is not convenient. Reading mail as 
if it were news is convenient. "

Instead of reading mail as if it were news, it would make a lot more 
sense to just have news.  Mailing lists are best for one-way mass 
communication about what your favorite band's next gig is and for those 
college students who have a hard enough time just using a web browser. 
I think considering that we are all using Linux, we are at least 
computer-savvy enough to use a news client.

Peace,
William