On Sunday 29 March 2009 09:15:59 am Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello, > I wonder why could not these discussions been moved to a forum. > I mean, the discussion list is great but is very hard to use for common > users (I use GMANE for writing/browsing but I still receive daily updates > in my mailbox). > A forum-like interface like Nabble would be much better but... why don't we > use a normal forum site? > There's a LyX forum in "LaTeX community" but it's not as active as this > discussion list; anyway I found that, as I did, other users posted > something for this list in Nabble and then didn't get the answers because > they didn't know Nabble don't post messages not posted directly there. > I think current (as past) LyX politic should be GO FOR THE AVERAGE USER, be > simple and easy. Why LaTeX have a lot of forum sites, while LyX doesn't??? > Lack of information or access to information is the worst (and senseless) > way to discourage LyX users. > Thx > Piero
If this list became forum only, I'd be gone. As a person on 20 mailing lists, I like the fact that posts get sent to me. I don't have time to go around looking for them. I tried forums last century and found after a brief period of keeping up, I stopped looking for posts as it became too time consuming. The LyX list can be accessed via gmane.org, so we have the best of both worlds. I don't see the advantages of eliminating the mailing list, and once again, if it were eliminated, I wouldn't join the forum. I'm just one guy so it's no big deal, but if several other people also went away it wouldn't be good, especially if some of them were people who answered questions. The LyX mailing list's worked well for me since 2001, and a quick gmane search shows posts as far back as February 1999 (happy tenth everyone!). My advice would be, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
