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 lyx to
> more people any more than than an occasional post to some other major NG
> (don't know which, but there's gotta be one out there somewhere... a Tex
> group perhaps?).
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.
If selling LyX to the public is a goal, as you imply above, having a
LyX newsgroup would help a lot. Anyone who uses Deja News to search
for TeX/LaTeX questions would come across the LyX newsgroup.
Deja News is also a much more convenient way to search LyX discussion
archives than is a LISTSERV.
Mailing lists have a significant disadvantage in that anytime someone
goes on vacation or otherwise cannot check their e-mail for a few days,
upon return they find the mailboxes jammed with messages from the
mailing list.
Norm
