On 2025-07-12, Stephan Seitz <stse+deb...@rootsland.net> wrote: > Am Sa, Jul 12, 2025 at 14:48:20 -0000 schrieb Greg: >>That's fine as long as you realize you are in the vast minority. > > Fine with me, I don’t have a smartphone either and don’t use any social > media. > >>The thrust of the OP seems to be directed towards the *majority* of >>*new* users, who ain't gonna be using Gnus to read this mailing list, >>please get real. > > Well, then we don’t have a common ground to communicate. > > The purpose of having mailing lists rather than having newsgroups is to > place a barrier to entry which protects the lists and their users from > invasion by the general uneducated hordes. > -- Ian Jackson
That's a ridiculous reference because you can read this mailing list in exactly the same way as a newsgroup, which is what I have been doing from the very start. > You can replace newsgroups with web/social media. So rather than educate, you prefer excluding the uneducated. What a genius you must be. > Stephan >
