[Mageia-discuss] Community forum

[Marc Paré]

  Le 2010-09-19 09:16, William Bagwell a écrit :
> On Sunday 19 September 2010, Maurice wrote:
>>    Yes, that would be a good move, but personally I would prefer a
>> newsgroup (simply because it's more convenient), if that were
>> possible.
> I would love to see this too, but would prefer it be a private server
> newsgroup rather than a true usenet newsgroup. (One of those will happen
> as soon as someone sends a control message and there is nothing we can do
> to stop it) A private server newsgroup can be controlled in ways usenet
> groups can not be...
>
> And *this* mailing list can be gated to the newsgroup once it is up and
> running as Mailman already has a "Mail<->News gateways" built in.

Unfortunately, ISP's are in the habit of dropping Usenet access these 
days. The are fewer and fewer access points to the Usenet. Sign of the 
times.

There should definitely be a formal mailist and forum board under the 
umbrella of the Mageia group. That way, the Mageia community will be in 
charge of its own communication process rather than be at the mercy of 
potential whim of mailist/forum owners. It is difficult to control and 
disseminate information when you are not in control of your own 
advertising tools. One just has to look at any formal foundation group 
who have gone through this process.

Marc