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> I would definitely recommend mailing lists in 2018 I'm curious as to why setting up a newsgroup (on usenet) or setting up a private news server (with public
by u801e 8y ago
> I would definitely recommend mailing lists in 2018
I'm curious as to why setting up a newsgroup (on usenet) or setting up a private news server (with public read access and account required post access) was never the standard way to communicate for open source projects.
The advantage newsgroups have over email is that it makes browsing archives of the list much easier, and they can be used just as easily with a mail/news client.
- dwheeler 8y agoHistorically they were. CVS was originally posted to 'comp.sources.unix', for example. I think the fundamental problem is spammers. It's hard to kick off misbehaving users from usenet. Spanmers are trouble elsewhere too, but there are more tools to counter them. In short, spammers are why we can't have (some) nice things.
- u801e 8y ago> I think the fundamental problem is spammers. It's hard to kick off misbehaving users from usenet. I know that usenet has the concept of moderated groups. I don't know whether managing one would be more time consuming compared to an email list. Based on what I see in the git mailing list (via gmane), there is a significant amount of spam that makes it through, but most people have set their filters to handle that.