For me the main problem is the fact it is not a public place which I should be able to read without a facebook login. What is this? State within a state, Internet within Internet? How bad would it be if the mailing lists of open source projects were not public? To what would the search engines point you when you were looking for a solution to a problem? How would you follow discussions and so on.. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2015 13:53:25 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members! > On Mon, March 23, 2015 05:24, Nux! wrote: >> I find this very, very sad. >> > > I find it unsavoury. We are recommending that acknowledged newbies > subscribe to a service known for repeatedly and persistently violating > its members' privacy? > > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos