Re: LDAP forum (was: fascism)

[Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Hello Chris, Hallvard and the rest of the distinguished characters of 
openldap-software;

The fact that newsgroups are dying is just part of the sad commentary 
on our current Internet growth phase.  As a world society we do not 
seem to be willing to spend time on much of anything.  We want INSTANT 
results.  Instead of "try, try again" our motto has become "I'll try 
anything, once and only once".

It used to be accepted as fact that once a mailinglist exceeded 1000 
participants, a newsgroup was far better and more efficient at getting 
the information around to everyone interested.  Perhaps that was based 
more on the combined bandwidth requirements than the instant 
gratification desires of the participants.

I've personally never read the ldap mailinglist at umich -- it seemed 
to have died a while back, but probably I was just too impatient with 
it and wasn't willing to search out the archives of the list to see how 
relevant it would be to my situation.

On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Christopher Hicks wrote:

> > Or maybe it's about time to create a newsgroup comp.infosystems.ldap 
> > or something?
>
> Newsgroups aren't nearly as useful as mailing lists generally.  Google 
> groups helps, but its still not nearly as conducive to technical 
> conversations as a well-run mailing list.

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