Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-15 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
> > There is indeed a TeX/LaTeX newsgroup, and it is NOT overrun by spam. > > Take a look for yourself, comp.text.tex, and you'll see what I mean. There are some questions in this group concerning LyX but not many. New Lyx-Users will probably ask more questions concering LaTeX than concerning L

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread kaynjay
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:18:26PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:33:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I tend to agree with Pablo on this. While a beginner myself as well, I don't ... > There is indeed a TeX/LaTeX newsgroup, and it is NOT overrun by spam.

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Norm Matloff
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:33:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tend to agree with Pablo on this. While a beginner myself as well, I don't > know the value of a newsgroup over this list. NG's (and I believe their > recipients) are quite subject to spam. Having a NG won't IMHO sell ly

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/13/00 at 09:33 PM, Pablo Lachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Since I don't know any newsgroups, what would be the advantage of it to this >mailinglist, considering the content? I don't think it's a very good idea to >split up the information, because the lyx-user

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
I agree. Ramon > Since I don't know any newsgroups, what would be the advantage of it to > this mailinglist, considering the content? I don't think it's a very > good idea to split up the information, because the lyx-users isn't a > high traffic list anyway ... just my thoughts. > > Cheers, Pa

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Pablo Lachmann
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Wail Gueaieb wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi Wail! > I am a big fan of LyX, though I am still a beginner in it. The same with me ;o) > I understand that what you guys are doing to take LyX to the top is > a great work. However, I strongly belive that creating a LyX > newsgro

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Norm Matloff
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:42:16PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > As a result of this experience I MUCH prefer moderated usergroups. > Personally I hate the lag created by moderation. I agree about the lag. The purpose of this newsgroup would be to get QUICK help on problems. The goal of

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
> As a result of this experience I MUCH prefer moderated usergroups. Personally I hate the lag created by moderation. > Of course this would require a fair amount of work by the moderator. And that's the problem... well, before argueing whether we will find a moderator we could as well ask whe

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Ralph Boland
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > I am not an "expert" either, but I strongly support the idea of forming > > a newsgroup. > > So there are at least three of us ;-) > > I just had a look at news.admin.misc and found a message under > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ("How to Create a New Usenet Newsg

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
> I am not an "expert" either, but I strongly support the idea of forming > a newsgroup. So there are at least three of us ;-) I just had a look at news.admin.misc and found a message under Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ("How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup") that explains the process of crea

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Norm Matloff
I am not an "expert" either, but I strongly support the idea of forming a newsgroup. Norm Matloff On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:55:03PM -0500, Wail Gueaieb wrote: > > Not a bad idea. What name do you suggest? > > comp.text.lyx? > > Why not? > > > And somebody has to start the official discussio

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-13 Thread Wail Gueaieb
> Not a bad idea. What name do you suggest? > comp.text.lyx? Why not? > And somebody has to start the official discussion... I would really like to start the official discussion but I think that a LyX "expert" is more entitled for such a job. As I said I am only a beginner with a couple weeks o

Re: LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
> However, I strongly belive that creating a LyX newsgroup will = > tremendously boost this work further and fascilitate the communication = > among LyX users and developers. This would be a major step towards = > opening LyX to the outer ("non-LyX") world. Not a bad idea. What name do you sugges

LyX newsgroup: It's about time

2000-03-12 Thread Wail Gueaieb
  Hi everyone,   I am a big fan of LyX, though I am still a beginner in it. I understand that what you guys are doing to take LyX to the top is a great work. However, I strongly belive that creating a LyX newsgroup will tremendously boost this work further and fascilitate the communication am