Re: Debian User List
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Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:04:48AM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
>> Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net>:
>>> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:04 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>>>> Greg Folkert wrote:
>>>>> I wouldn't. I am itching for Etch to go stable so I can really help the
>>>>> brunt that will come. The brunt of questions that will FINALLY be there.
>>>>> All of this crap is filler for the stuff we have coming very soon.
>>>> Current levels of posts on forums.debian.net suggest otherwise. (More
>>>> questions being asked there than here; generally fewer responses
>>>> though.) So do popcon graphs which show a continuing increase in the
>>>> number of etch installations.
>>> Okay. So I guess the DU ML should just close up shop and be done with
>>> it.
>> Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy compared to
>> web forums. You can't point and click on anything in slrn or mutt.
>> The best they can do is googling with "site:lists.debian.org". Maybe
>> with enough of that, they'll begin to wonder what that ML stuff is all
>> about, since all the useful answers they get seem to come from there.
>>
>
> Honestly I find mailing lists a lot more usable than forums. I am a
> frequenter at forums.debian.net and as nice as having a flashy looking
> forum is, I prefer to have all of my messages saved to my hard drive
> for archival purposes (I'm one of those people who hates throwing
> anything out).
>
> Oh, and I'm only saying this because I'm one of those "kids" you speak
> of. Seventeen here, it should be obvious anyway because my English
> isn't as good as most of the people on this mailing list (When I
> re-read my messages sometimes even I don't understand what I was
> trying to say)
Wow, I didn't know that. You come across as being much older. Your
English isn't as bad as you think it is. I've heard much worse. One
thing about English that makes it popular is that one can really mess up
the grammar and still be understood.
Be it the saying one that I am?
See what I mean?
Just in case, that translates to "Am I the one that is saying that?"
Joe
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