On Jul 10, 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:48:18AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if they > > need us to answer questions that should be fine. > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email > intimidating.
Being "the new person" to a group is always a bit intimidating... > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally say > things like, "email is only for password reminders and my Steam login > code". It's not that they are non-technical or uninterested in > technology, it's that specifically email is an unknown and unwieldy tool > for them. When email is the only support venue, to a lot of folks that > is unwelcoming. So, high school students then? That's not exactly surprising -- I never really "used" email until college. IRC / ICQ was good enough for chatting with friends, and email was only good for hearing from Nigerian Princes. Then I got to college (granted, at 18), and *everybody* was using email all the time -- newsletters from the student groups, professors sending weekly "interesting things in science" (well, at least the one did), etc. It continues here (admittedly, in "white-collar" work) that email is constantly used ... > We should try to be as welcoming as we can here, but I think that Debian > cannot hope to reverse that trend so if it wishes to remain relevant it > should try to remove email workflows from all aspects of its use. What "trend"? That kids don't use (or perhaps understand) stuff they've had no real *need* of yet? Should we get rid of spares and the tools from car trunks because "kids" haven't yet learned why the stuff is important? (or at least "learned past dad showed me how to change a tire once, in the driveway, in good weather") -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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