Max Pyziur wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Max Pyziur wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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I find the "users" list on fedoraproject challenging.
Heh, heh. We can be touchy, here, too... but when someone comes in who's actually read manpages, and googled, before coming here - in other words, they don't expect us to do their jobs, just help them do it, we
usually
try to help.
Aggressiveness is less of an issue. Getting good signal (relative to ad-hominem noise) is important.
Twenty years ago, Usenet with a good reader got big/thick signal, especially on the tech lists.
However since then, projects have become numerous and varied, as have sources of information (email lists, web-based discussions, etc). Finding good, clear, authoritative, and consistent "signal" is difficult, especially when you find yourself in a jam.
And Usenet is effectively gone.
It's still there. And some newsgroups are still busy, though not like in the good days of the early nineties.
mark, Big 8 newsgroup co-creator, ret'd