Re: Why not a forum?

[Benjamin Esham]

Johann Petrak wrote:

> I am pretty new to lilypond and this list, but I wonder if it would be
> possible to create a discussion forum on the lilypond website?  My
> experience is that forums are much more convenient to discuss  
> problems.
> One of the advantages is that one can make different forums for  
> different
> areas of discussion. One can also make certain frequently occuring  
> topics
> sticky or easily provide links to manuals and other documentation.
>
> An alternative, the anachronistic version of a forum would be a USENET
> group ...

I think people generally prefer mailing lists because they allow  
users to
view content the way they want to view it; people have much more control
over their mail clients than over web-based fora.  If you want to view
LilyPond lists as USENET groups, check out

  http://gmane.org/find.php?list=lilypond

For me, GMANE is great because mailing lists are often much easier to  
work
with when they're presented as USENET groups; the threading, for  
example.

HTH,
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Benjamin D. Esham
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