Max Pyziur wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Max Pyziur wrote: >>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> [...] >>> 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