You're right I should know better On Tuesday 11 August 2009 14:32:32 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have tried posting questions once or twice and I never got a single > > answer. The result is that, now, I do not post them here any more. > > Just try again and don't take it personally. That's what I've done for > years. As a last resort, write Hans, Taco or whoever is most relevant to > your question directly and say, "I've posted this to the list a couple of > times and have not goten an answer yet. Could you take a look?" > > Key: politeness and persistence :-) > > The developers are very busy, well, developing. Be patient with them. > > > The flow of development/"high level" messages (that I do not > > understand) is important, too important for me to see and possibly try > > to answer most end-users questions. Perhaps it would be time to split > > this mailing-list in 2 parts, one really for users and the other for > > developpers, beta testers, package programmers, etc. > > That has already been done ;-) But understand that ConTeXt is a HUGE > system, and hardly anyone understands it all. > > > Of course, the drawback of doing this is that the gurus will not be > > interested in following the users' list and will be kept busy with other > > lists, so they will not be present to enlighten beginners. > > In my experience this is simply not the case. One could create at least > one book out of, say, Wolfgang's answers to newbies and users in general > [actually, that might not be such a bad idea]. > > Best wishes > Idris
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