Ultimately the mailing list serves as a form of living manual to the program,
so it would be
nice to preserve as many of these insights as possible!
Thomas' above sentence reminds me -- has anyone thought about a PyMOL
wiki? :-)
Given that one of the points of pymol is to provide a user-friendly and
intuitive interface(!), I don't think this is something that's
overwhelmingly necessary... but it may help illuminate pymol's dustier
corners, serve as a central repository of obscure/specialized snippets
of code and pymol macros, etc...
Cam.
=== pymol-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote (on 11/19/2004 08:17
PM): ===
Today's Topics:
4. List participation commentary...... (Thomas Stout)
7. Re: List participation commentary...... (Filipe Maia)
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Subject:
[PyMOL] List participation commentary......
From:
Thomas Stout <thomasst...@yahoo.com>
Date:
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:49 -0800 (PST)
To:
pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Hi All --
Recently I've noticed a growing number of questions
being posed to the PyMOL mailing list that never seem
to get responses. I infer from this that one or both
of two things are happening: either 1) list members
that know the answers to these questions are not
responding to the questions, or 2) the responses are
happening off-list.......either way I would like to
appeal to everyone to use the list fully. There are
many "lurkers" (myself included) that would very much
like to see and learn from the answers to many of
these questions. Other mailing lists (eg, CCP4) have
adopted an additional SOP where the original poser of
a question ultimately follows-up with a summary of the
responses - this seems like a good idea to me for this
list as well. Ultimately the mailing list serves as a
form of living manual to the program, so it would be
nice to preserve as many of these insights as
possible!
Many thanks,
Tom Stout (thomasstout - yahoo / com)
PS - And, yes, I am guilty of some of this myself! I
promise to follow my own request.....
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Subject:
Re: [PyMOL] List participation commentary......
From:
"Filipe Maia" <fm...@gmx.net>
Date:
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:11:00 +0100
To:
pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:49 -0800 (PST), Thomas Stout
<thomasst...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi All --
Recently I've noticed a growing number of questions
being posed to the PyMOL mailing list that never seem
to get responses. I infer from this that one or both
of two things are happening: either 1) list members
that know the answers to these questions are not
responding to the questions, or 2) the responses are
happening off-list.......either way I would like to
appeal to everyone to use the list fully. There are
many "lurkers" (myself included) that would very much
like to see and learn from the answers to many of
these questions. Other mailing lists (eg, CCP4) have
adopted an additional SOP where the original poser of
a question ultimately follows-up with a summary of the
responses - this seems like a good idea to me for this
list as well. Ultimately the mailing list serves as a
form of living manual to the program, so it would be
nice to preserve as many of these insights as
possible!
I agree entirely. It would also be nice if the default reply
was to the list and not only to the individual that asked the question.
