Re: Replying to posts

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 29 apr 2016 alle 12:59, Johan Vromans 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> >  There's some Lilypond questions on the tex StackExchange forum, and 
> > you'll
> >  find some on the StackOverflow too.
>
> I have a very strong preference for one single place where all 
> information
> lives. And I'm very happy with this mailing list.

I think that everybody should decide freely. I feel the same that was 
expressed here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-12/msg00413.html

> The last time I tried to ask a question on StackWhatever I was 
> (un)kindly
> directed to another sub-StackWhatever, and then to another, and to 
> another,
> so I just gave up.

What happened once doesn't mean anything. Most of people like Q&A 
sites. Personally I think that they are way more effective than mailing 
lists for helping and get help.

Anyway, one might also argue about the idea of using some third-party 
service. If some lilypond user set up a nice forum (as for example¹) I 
would be able to follow only what I'm interested in. Right now I delete 
90% of emails in this list without even reading them. But filtering is 
time consuming and annoying and I'll have to quit this list sooner or 
later.

You must be very motivated and involved to stay in an medium/high 
volume mailing list like this one. On the other hand Q&A allows more 
participation from "free riders" or "seldom helpers".

¹ https://discuss.gohugo.io/