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From: Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get my port ustreamed?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:04:27 +0800
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Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:27:51 +0300, Robin Haberkorn wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Alastair Hogge wrote:
>>> Have you tried asking for a review on the freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
>>> mailing list? You might also get more attention using
>>> reviews.freebsd.org for new Ports, it is extra work, tho, the added
>>> exposure across platforms may be of some benefit?
>>>
>> There seems to be some movement in the ticket now, so let's see whether
>> this helped.
>> Apparently, the right people are hanging out on
>> comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. ;-)
>
> You should have been here when loads of the official mailing lists where 
> synchronised here on Usenet, good times...

For what it's worth: I still run a hack to forward posts to announce@ to 
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce.

Gmane also still exists.  A bit.

>sadly gone now, and now, even mailing lists are being replaced by shit 
>like Github, and even Matrix has entered the picture.

The optimist's view is that a lot of the noise that made Usenet and 
mailing lists less productive since September 1993 has now moved 
elsewhere.  You don't have to follow GitHub.  And I'm not even going to 
look up what Matrix is. :-)

Philip