Jeff Kopmanis <kopma...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm with you, Kevin. "mass abandonment of critical thinking skills and > common sense", is right on target. > > I'm an IT professional, and I can completely sympathize and appreciate > all that Jean deals with. Thank You, ALL, for your largely thankless > efforts. You provide such a valuable service to the Lilypond > community in support of a very powerful and somewhat complex piece of > software. Think how much something of this quality would cost in a > commercial setting?! > > I think it'd be perfectly acceptable to auto-reply to non-members with > a polite "Subscribe to post to this list" type of message. If you > can't take the time to become a member of a list/community, then there > should be no expectation that the community will take the time to > respond to the request.
I don't think that the LilyPond user base is of a size where elitist thinking is providing a good basis for keeping the user-poweruser-developer-magician pyramid stable. -- David Kastrup