Re: Why not a forum?

[Benjamin Esham]

Johann Petrak wrote:

I am pretty new to lilypond and this list, but I wonder if it would be
possible to create a discussion forum on the lilypond website?  My

sticky or easily provide links to manuals and other documentation.

An alternative, the anachronistic version of a forum would be a USENET
group ...

experience is that forums are much more convenient to discuss problems. One of the advantages is that one can make different forums for different areas of discussion. One can also make certain frequently occuring topics

view content the way they want to view it; people have much more control
over their mail clients than over web-based fora.  If you want to view
LilyPond lists as USENET groups, check out

  http://gmane.org/find.php?list=lilypond



HTH,
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Benjamin D. Esham
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I think people generally prefer mailing lists because they allow users to For me, GMANE is great because mailing lists are often much easier to work with when they're presented as USENET groups; the threading, for example.

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