it's extremely rare I've had mailing lists deliver value According to my memory and browsing history in this week I've been able to find solutions to issues in

it's extremely rare I've had mailing lists deliver value According to my memory and browsing history in this week I've been able to find solutions to issues in Emacs, Doxygen and Cygwin by Googling and ending up to their relevant mailing-list threads. It is awesome that mailing-lists get archived and the problems (and solutions) other people had can be queried. Sure, I wasn't the first person to encounter these issues, so they had been already found and circumvented. Anyway, the issues/questions had been sent to mailing-list and they had been answered. If mailing-lists didn't work, I wonder why Linux kernel manages to evolve at all. Sure, mailing lists aren't Stack Overflow where you get karma and gold medals for providing solutions.