Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here
On 2025-07-12, Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@rootsland.net> wrote:
> 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
That's a ridiculous reference because you can read this mailing list in
exactly the same way as a newsgroup, which is what I have been doing
from the very start.
> You can replace newsgroups with web/social media.
So rather than educate, you prefer excluding the uneducated. What a
genius you must be.
> Stephan
>
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