From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: How about a forum
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012121943.33422.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D05103D.2070306@jander.de>
I'm around since prehistoric times, before internet, before wifi, before
TeX...
So, what is the difference between a "forum" and threads on a mailing list?
After all, the mailing list is archived (like a forum) and is searchable. In
fact, a google search on typesetting keywords often comes-up with the ConTeXt
mailing list - evidence of its activity!
I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing
a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum
present any advantages over the mailing list?
Alan
On Sunday 12 December 2010 19:11:09 Achim Jander wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I am trying to get into Context again. The documentation seems to be
> somewhat better than one year ago (my last attempt) but still very
> suboptimal. Many information (as well on Contextgarden as on Pragma) is
> outdated, for example, the xml document on Pragma is dated 2001, the
> "first document" on the context wiki does not mention mkiv (ok, at least
> now there is a hint that something should be done about that). For a
> newbie like me, the best chance of information seems to be the
> mailing-list, where one can find a lot of gems.
> After spending this cold and snowy sunday afternoon with the
> mailing-list (and i got no further than to september 2010) I am
> wondering why there ist no forum for Context. I spend a lot of time
> getting into new themes, and I always like the functions of forums.
> I think in a forum the acces to the relavant information could be very
> quicklier than in a Mailing-List - which is in my opinion a relict of
> the information possibilities of the 1990 (last century, only a minute
> away from the middle ages :-).
> Dont get me wrong, I like the unbelievable support which is done on the
> mailing-list, but i think today there could be more efficient
> possibilities. Any suggestions on that?
> Thanks,
> Achim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-12 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-12 18:11 Achim Jander
2010-12-12 18:42 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-12 18:43 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2010-12-13 8:27 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-13 8:37 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-12-12 19:02 ` Peter Münster
2010-12-12 19:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-12-12 23:08 ` Johannes Graumann
2010-12-13 4:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-14 1:18 ` Jonas Stein
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