Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[David Kastrup]

Jeff Kopmanis <kopmanis@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm with you, Kevin.  "mass abandonment of critical thinking skills and
> common sense", is right on target.
>
> I'm an IT professional, and I can completely sympathize and appreciate
> all that Jean deals with.  Thank You, ALL, for your largely thankless
> efforts.  You provide such a valuable service to the Lilypond
> community in support of a very powerful and somewhat complex piece of
> software.  Think how much something of this quality would cost in a
> commercial setting?!
>
> I think it'd be perfectly acceptable to auto-reply to non-members with
> a polite "Subscribe to post to this list" type of message.  If you
> can't take the time to become a member of a list/community, then there
> should be no expectation that the community will take the time to
> respond to the request.

I don't think that the LilyPond user base is of a size where elitist
thinking is providing a good basis for keeping the
user-poweruser-developer-magician pyramid stable.

-- 
David Kastrup