Hi Maureen, On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Maureen <emaure...@msn.com> wrote: > I've been getting the digest from this "user list" and I'm completely > confused. I've also submitted a question but received no response. > > I read in the latest Digest that this is a "mailing list", not a "message > board". I don't understand the difference, and I don't understand how > problems that are presented and answered are "mailing list" items as opposed > to a "forum/message board" that addresses problems. Am I using the wrong > service to obtain help in using Gimp? An explanation would be helpful, > instead of just "dead air".
You are subscribed to the mailing list correctly. The only way there is of 'doing it wrongly' is using the forum interface provided, against developers wishes, by gimpusers.com. The differences between a message board and a mailing list are many. The most important one, and the reason why the gimpusers forum interface is so broken, is that forums typically have 'flat' threading : the first post is the 'parent' post, and all following posts on the subject are 'child' posts (so there is only one level of nesting); Whereas mailing lists are just systems to relay emails to a list of people, and so they have all the normal, complete, infinitely-nestable threading capabilities inherent in email, which tends to make it much more clear who was replying to who. This difference is mainly what has been causing the trouble (some emails not showing up on the gimpusers.com 'message board', confusion about who is quoting whom by users of the gimpusers.com 'message board'). In one instance, someone asked a question via gimpusers.com 'boards', could not see any of the 4 replies posted (by people who were actually genuinely subscribed to the mailing list), and later posted saying "Anyone?". I went to the trouble of signing up at gimpusers.com in order to tell him 'Stop that, and subscribe to the mailing list like an ordinary sane person!'. Just to make it completely clear -- if your email address when posting to this list shows up as "YOURNAME <for...@gimpusers.com>", you are accessing this list through the gimpusers forums. Otherwise, you are not doing so (and should therefore experience no strange behaviours arising from the message board software trying to pretend that gimp-user is a message board rather than a mailing list). For example, someone named 'Nyt' recently posted using the gimpusers forum interface, in the thread named 'shutdown' I hope that helps, David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
