Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum

[Paul Morris]

Ted Lemon wrote
> Yeah, so, this is intensely frustrating for anybody who tries to google
> for help with lilypond, because there are several dozen archives of the
> lilypond mailing list, each slightly different, so that if you do
> virtually any google search for help with lilypond, it returns a page with
> about a dozen identical copies of the same wrong answer

I wonder... Why are there so many different archives of the lilypond mailing
list?  Would there be a way to prevent some of them from showing up in
google search results? (e.g. by having them indicate "no index" in
robots.txt) 

FWIW, I sometimes try a general search (DuckDuckGo), but just as often I'll
start with the manuals (usually doing a single-page search on the index page
of the notation manual), then I'll search either the LSR or the mailing list
using the nabble interface ( http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ ). 
...and then ask on the mailing list if I get stuck.

Cheers,
-Paul



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