From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6587 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Modules Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:03:57 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3C4D471D.9090005@uni-bielefeld.de> References: <20020117215748.GA762@localhost> <20020117215748.GA762@localhost> <5.1.0.14.1.20020119145525.0328d238@server-1> <20020121111347.1ee08085.taco@elvenkind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397109 11949 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen , bourbaki@bigfoot.com, mk@mcqm.net, ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6587 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Same for me. I already have too much to read as it is. However, > I could set up a public forum for ConTeXt support if there are > people interested. It would solve some problems with separation > of beginners/experts/programmers. OTOH, it would be HTTP based and > therefore less accessible than a mailing list. > > What do you guys think? > I think that context support via this list is excellent and that there is no need for additional support channels. Personally, I prefer mailing lists and newsgroups and dislike forums. Concerning the separation: I don't know if this is necessary or desirable. I assume that the programmers on this list do communicate additionally in some other ways. The advantage of combining the user levels is obvious: Simple questions can be answered by simple users. On the other hand, trickier questions will find their way to the experts. As far as I know, Hans is interested in having a user interface accessible and understandable to non-experts. So he may very well be interested in watching the problems arising when those simple users actually try to use the system. Furthermore, I understand that time (for most of you/us) is not sufficient to follow even more discussions from sources like comp.text.tex. Most questions in the newsgroups will be answered by someone, and/or users will be directed to this list. Eckhart