Stefano Franchi <fran...@...> writes: > Like Uwe, I am not quite sure I understand what's so difficult about lists. That > is, unless you are used to reading mail in a browser and never used a mail > client.
Of course I use a webclient (M$Hotmail, the worst ever, but who cares?) and everything ends up a mess. Lists have also many advantages, which Uwe summed up nicely. However, > I am also old enough to have used e-mail for years before browsing came into > existence, so what Piero is saying may just be a pointer to a generational > gap. > Good point. A gap. The most experienced (or advanced) Internet users are nowadays less than basic-traditional-computer users and only 1 on 100 of them used the internet in the mid 90s, where newsgroups and lists were the most advancede way to communicate, but this is ancient history. The same with the 80s: advanced personal computers users and programmers knew nothing about basic electricity knoledge, which was the most advanced knoledge for their fathers. Who cared once? Nowadays the future is the advanced social networking, but the "open" community seems to be far less interested in it than companie$. This is absolutely the worst thing of the internet today. Glorious habits should evolve as everything else. What I lack most of LyX (and LaTeX)? Web-based environments, web-based bibliographies, web-based computing.. ok, we can't have EVERYTHING, but the various Google-Whatever are the best creatures of the net and this is the future, we all know it. > The issue though, is that the great support Lyx provides is (mostly) in the > hands of a relatively small group of people who very generously share their > time and expertise---Uwe himself being perhaps the most active member of this > group. What they prefer is the law of lyx-land! Without all of you I would be almost dead. Thank you with the entire lyxer heart.
