Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions

[Philip Webb]

980420 Laura Eaves wrote: 
> 980420 Howard Kaikow wrote:
>> The vast majority of lynx users have no interest
>> in becoming developers of Lynx or even looking at the code.
> The average lynx user may not be interested in development issues,
> but I think it's important for developers to see
> all of what would be discussed on a newsgroup.

this is one of the basic points to be remembered:
developers need feed-back & wish-lists from real users;
also, users have been known to become developers.
 
>> Of more importance is that developers monitor user newsgroups & lists
>> to see what users really need.

it would be important, but long experience of such affairs tells me
that developers are far too busy -- even if they had the interest --
to want to monitor anything other than lynx-dev.
 
the value of lynx-dev as it has been for the past couple of years
is shown very clearly by the amount of traffic it has always generated
& the way in which new faces have regularly appeared.
apart from that, we all need to say Thankyou more readily when appropriate
& we need to insist as a group that members remain polite to each other.

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