On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andre Poenitz wrote:
It's not me who says lists are difficoult, it's people. I never used lists before knowing LyX.
Other people used mailing lists before web forums had been in use.
First there was ARPANET (text based), then BitNet (text based), then Usenet (text based); with tools such as Archie (text based) and WAIS (text based). Of course, if one grows up inculcated by Microsoft and accepts that there way is the Only One True Way, then one has a terribly narrow view of the computing world.
They always had, because they are very, VERY simple. Lists are not that simple, comparing to forums (unless you care about cookies, which 99% of people don't).
Feh! That's complete nonsense. However, ... if someone finds it very difficult to look at a list of messages on his/her own machine, while finding it simple to look at them on someone else's machine via a web interface I can understand the confusion.
Lists are difficoult to use comparing to their advantages,
How...exactly?
so they are for PRO users, almost always have been, and in future I guess they will be ONLY for pro. Their worst difficoulty is to LEARN how it works (I spent some days puzzling and puzzling and sending messages to wrong addresses till I went to GMANE and used its forum-like interface)
Ooh! So because you couldn't figure out how to read and send mail they're a bad idea. And only PROs (however you define them) are smart enough to figure them out. Interesting.
So you found a solution that fits your need. Good.
Yup. And it's a GUI front end to the mail list. I've never understood why people want pictures to read text. The last time I saw a book with text in different colors and typefaces, and illustrated with pictures was when I read childrens' books to my young son. Books for adults (well, most adults who don't read comic books, anyway) don't have all the enhancements of a GUI; neither to newspapers. Rich
