[H-GEN] Vice President's report.
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Fri Jul 22 19:30:05 EDT 2011
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, David Seikel wrote:
> I suspect that's because web forums are way more popular now. That's
> where the flame wars are these days. For many people, if it's not on
> the web, it does not exist "What's a mailing list?".
We were just talking about this on #humbug. I've felt for a long time
that the reason that IRC and Usenet have a lot less of those issues than
they used to is because the trolls largely moved on to web forums.
It does seem reasonable that this applies to lists too.
Not a bad result all told.
Cheers,
Rob
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