Am Sa, Jul 12, 2025 at 14:48:20 -0000 schrieb Greg:
That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority.
Fine with me, I don’t have a smartphone either and don’t use any social media.
The thrust of the OP seems to be directed towards the *majority* of *new* users, who ain't gonna be using Gnus to read this mailing list, please get real.
Well, then we don’t have a common ground to communicate.
The purpose of having mailing lists rather than having newsgroups is to
place a barrier to entry which protects the lists and their users from
invasion by the general uneducated hordes.
-- Ian Jackson
You can replace newsgroups with web/social media.
Stephan
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