On April 12, 2020, Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > There is some age correlation with the type of communication mechanism > one is comfortable with, and reason to believe that younger people > skew towards being more comfortable with forums than with email. Who makes up the "younger" crowd? sub 30? sub 20? I mean, I personally was in my mid-20s when I first started using Linux (college), and I had otherwise only been introduced to the internet via AOL. Learning that there was so much more beyond "AOL Keywords" took a while (and then that there was stuff even older took even longer); but I eventually stumbled upon things like Usenet and mailing lists -- and I'm personally finding that, once the rules are ingrained; they are significantly more comfortable to use than the "Modern(tm)" alternatives. There is something to be said for educating "younger people" with the old ways -- I mean how many of these "Modern" things are just re-implementations of what previously existed (except with centralized control and "oh yeah, pay us"). (Aside, apologies if this is goofy / breaks threading - I had to pull the reply-to out of lists.debian.org) -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
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