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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2973 comp.os.linux.misc:20764 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 23 Jul 1994 04:18:32 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <30q5mo$3ce@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <30fhpn$968@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Jul20.040243.5860@cs.cornell.edu> <SJA.94Jul20171747@gamma.hut.fi> <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>, Liam Greenwood <liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> wrote: > To many (me included to a degree...) mailing lists are 'closed' >and 'clique-ish'. News groups are open forums. Which means low signal/noise ratio. All of the serious development in Free/NetBSD and Linux is done in mailing lists because a person is generally more responsible in mailing lists than on the Net. It's too easy to be anonymous on the Net. (Anarchy) >factor in the differences in popularity. Drop into a Linux newsgroup >and the the place is ahopping and abuzzin'. None of the 'real development' is being done there. (I've been reading the Linux newsgroups since their ineption) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.