Since we’re airing grievances …

The format of the response below is exactly what bothers me most about email 
lists and why I favor forums. The etiquette is to quote what you are responding 
to and remove everything else. Imagine 4 other people quoted different parts of 
the original email, I now have 5 disjointed emails going off, perhaps, in 4 
different directions. With a forum, topics can be split and merged retaining 
all parts of OP’s initial post/email and I can ignore the tangents I’m not 
interested in.

Secondly, a forum only notifies you when you are part of a thread (either 
started or replied to one) which reduces the email traffic tremendously. You 
aren’t poked with an email every time someone has a thought or issue, rather, 
you instantiate the interaction with the forum. Yes, I know digest option is 
available, but really, who wants to wade through an entire month’s worth of 
emails in one shot.

Thirdly, from a practical workflow perspective, I would much rather scroll 
through a thread that is on one page than to click n-number of emails. Of 
course, having to click into multiple emails is due in large part to my first 
point.

… and I’ll probably get yelled at for top-posting as well ;-)

Bottom line: Count me in for migrating and I also have resources to host it if 
need be.

From: lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail....@gnu.org 
<lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=gmail....@gnu.org> on behalf of Werner 
LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org>
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 9:37 AM
To: tim...@bitstream.net <tim...@bitstream.net>
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Discourse

> Additionally, I find value in the archived aspect of web fora in
> which all the discussions remain available in a very convenient
> manner.

If you look at the e-mail fields of any message you receive from the
list, you can see the following

  List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org>
  List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/lilypond-user>, 
<mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
  List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user>
  List-Post: <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org>
  List-Help: <mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=help>
  List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user>, 
<mailto:lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>

We *do* have an archive, with search.


    Werner

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