On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:56:18PM +0000, Piero Faustini wrote: > Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@...> writes: > > Why is it hard to use? You sing the mailing list and then get the > > emails as described here: > > http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists The whole list is archived at > > various websites. > > How many people use mailing lists? How many use forums? Say 1 lister > every 20 forumers? Say 1 to 10 (and I'm fair)?
Numbers alone do not matter much in such cases. Some things simply do not scale linearily. And - I'd expect an average LaTeX user to be able to handle e-mail... > It's not me who says lists are difficoult, it's people. I never used > lists before knowing LyX. Other people used mailing lists before web forums had been in use. For me, a mailing list (or "real" news) has two major advantages: I can search and filter for any criteria I want to, and I can use the text editor I like. Both is usually not (painlessly) possible with a web interface. > They always had, because > they are very, VERY simple. Lists are not that simple, comparing to > forums (unless you care about cookies, which 99% of people don't). Simple is good, as long as it does the job. But not often for more than that. > Everything has its thumb up and down. I believe you that with lists > you can do many things which a forum can't. But that's not the point. That's exactly the point ;-} I can scan a dozen mailing lists easily on a daily base. I would not do the same for web forums. > Lists are difficoult to use comparing to their advantages, so they are > for PRO users, almost always have been, and in future I guess they > will be ONLY for pro. Their worst difficoulty is to LEARN how it works > (I spent some days puzzling and puzzling and sending messages to wrong > addresses till I went to GMANE and used its forum-like interface) So you found a solution that fits your need. Good. Andre'
