Il 25-03-2010 19:42, "David W. Fenton" <[email protected]> ha
scritto:
> On 26 Mar 2010 at 5:18, Nigel Hanley wrote:
>
>> Thank you gentlemen, for your replies. Not being a contributor,
>> but merely a casual drop-in, my suggestion is just that, a
>> suggestion. Please take it in the spirit that it is tendered. I
>> receive my posts from this list in digest form. For over ten
>> years I have enjoyed this, but as blogging software, free
>> blogging software, has become available, it seems pointless to
>> continue with the email coloured comments indicating a thread.
>> If you receive your post one by one, fine, but for those of us
>> who don't, we are faced with a plethora of comments, and a
>> needed search to find the original topic.
>
> Many modern email clients can present a mailing list digest as a
> threaded discussion. You should investigate whether yours can do
> that, and if it can't whether you might get great benefit to
> switching to one that can.
>
> Also, most modern email clients can thread individual messages, such
> that you can look at a folder of posts from the Finale list as a list
> of subjects and then select the subjects you want to read and view
> the messages in order on that subject.
>
> Again, if your email can't do it, then maybe you need a better email
> client.
>
> In both cases, you seem to me to be complaining that the list is not
> convenient enough for your personal use. Yet, it's not clear if
> you've checked out the options that you already have to make it more
> convenient for you. Here's another, using Google Reader to present a
> mailing list as an RSS feed:
>
> http://lifehacker.com/283353/turn-mailing-lists-into-an-rss-feed
>
> That would give you the same interface to new posts that a blog would
> in terms of allowing you to pick and choose what to read.
>
>> A free Wordpress blog is designed to enable everybody in a
>> group, such as this Finale group, to post a topic. All
>> contributors, or authors, are able to post a new thread. Once
>> that thread is established, comments are able to be made, should
>> there be a comment to a particular comment, it is indented
>> accordingly. Rather than waiting for emails, or digests as I do,
>> it is simply a matter of checking the website.
>
> Or subscribing to it's RSS/Atom feed.
>
>> Topics are
>> trackable, the search window lists all appropriate topics or
>> threads. If I want to know about the option-9 key for flipping
>> accidentals, it will bring up all posts on that subject.
>
> Go ahead. Set it up. Nothing is stopping you.
>
>> I would love to see this list move into the 21st Century.
>
> Just because a technology is new doesn't mean it is better for all
> purposes. From my point of view, a blog would offer a minor number of
> useful features that can't be obtained with the mailing list (see
> above) while losing a lot of the features that make a mailing list
> good.
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