>Hi Maureen, > >On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>", 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 > Now, I'm confused. Should I not be posting by signing on to the forum and typing responses? I have to type in the two word display to "prevent automatic spam postings". So, am I going about it wrongly?
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