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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: german-speaking user-mailing list
From:       Christopher Molnar <molnar () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-30 15:19:13
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If one of the list admins of the German speaking mail list wants to 
contact me we can easily add the list to news.uslinuxtraining.com where 
all the other kde lists are as well.

-Chris

On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 09:31 AM, Thomas Diehl wrote:

> Am Samstag, 30. März 2002 11:24 schrieb Karl-Heinz Zimmer:
>
>> I am not sure if that's really a good idea, since there allready _is_ a
>> german language platform: Just tell these people to post to Usenet!
>
> Yes, why bother with all those funny mailing lists in KDE. Let's all use
> newsgroups. ;-)
>
> There are simply lots of people who don't know about usenet and don't 
> want
> to know about it. Or who find it impractical. Or who don't know how to 
> set
> it up in Linux with its lack of offline readers. Or whose ISPs do not 
> offer
> the German KDE group (or any newsgroups at all). -- This is not about
> "techies" or "geeks" but about people who just have a couple of 
> questions
> and are looking for a chance to mail somebody for a quick answer.
>
> At least to the German web site folks this now happens so often that 
> they
> may have have to close their mailing list for postings from outside one 
> day
> if there is no appropriate place to refer those people to.
>
> The downside (compared to the Usenet approach) is probably that there 
> will
> be the same questions over and over because nobody is looking at the
> archives. But I'd say Usenet isn't the answer for everybody, 
> nevertheless.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
>
> --
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