From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/64460 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How about a forum Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:33 +0100 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <201012121943.33422.alan.braslau@cea.fr> References: <4D05103D.2070306@jander.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292179448 10707 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2010 18:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:44:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 12 19:44:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRqtq-0000x6-8h for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7468CA8D2; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id B9cXJ5s1MadC; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D24CA8C7; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1570DCA8C7 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id C3yzauGYG8xl for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0807FCA8CB for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oBCIhbpX029681 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:39 +0100 Original-Received: from iram-hb-003386.localnet (unknown [81.57.248.225]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38CE4B0002 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:43:34 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4D05103D.2070306@jander.de> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=212.27.42.2; country=FR; latitude=46.0000; longitude=2.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=46.0000,2.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0bDGiHCm6 - 412dab51cd66 - 20101212 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:64460 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________