Manveru <manv...@...> writes: > I do not know who can I bomb with a feature request for more > intelligent thread merge for messages from discussion lists. There is > special marker in message headers to do that - GMAIL ignores that. > That's a shame bug.
It's me who casted a evil spell on the Mailing List, or what? GMANE since yesterday started to behave exactly as you told GMAIL does: now the thread I started is split in several ones!!! In Italy I would be called a "menagramo" (something like "bad luck antenna") and banned from human society. To our (serious) discussion: Manveru, I hope you didn't feel negative vibrations in my criticism to your answer, in fact I found it very polite and constructive. I tried to express a need that I think could be the *silent* majority's one, without, as someone requested, give "data" on it but based on what I can see today in the internet and in my department of History. For instance, I would like to convert to LyX my supervisor (we are musicologists) which is, in his 55, a great academic and an exceptionally opened and curious mind. But his relationship with the IT is much more similar to my 19y old sister's one than to any other person here, and I'm sure he's NO exception in our humanistic field, being the IT and computers "pros" (and much much much more the "old way" pros) THE rare exceptions in departments similar to mine. If some researcher in my Faculty uses the internet in order to look for information, no matter his age, he uses it in the same way of a 15 years old boy, *** because they started using it at the same moment. And I guess we can't call him a "neostrada child". Arguments that claims forum is not good enough because the only existing LyX forum has just a few contributors is too much similar to saying "why caring about public transport? Nobody uses it!": public transport will be efficient, fast, reliable, cheap and widely used when cars will be banned and money inverted in it, NOT and NEVER before. In the same way, until the best LyX contributors and LyX helping hands use mailing lists, any forum will be almost useless. In fact, I don't use it, just reply once in a while to stuck people about very very simple things. With this, I don't want to force anyone in changing its habits. On the other hand, thanks to people like you I understood the advantages and philosophy of lists, although new and basic LyX users are still unlikely to have an easy first access to this very one. If there's something I can do to make it a bit easier for them (most of all because I've been recently in the same trouble), please tell me. Piero P.S. One thing could be to add to the ml/forum page a link to http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=19 for newbies specifying that ML is much better to ask for more than basic issues. Similar links to other language specific forums (if existing) could be even better if we recommend to come back to ML once issues grow serious. *** Jstor or similars turned out to be really interesting for humanists not more than a bunch of months ago
