[gfsd]Re: GNU TeXmacs (fwd)

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     address@hidden -> address@hidden
> 
> A help- list is a public list.  People write to a help- list if they
> want to post for users to see; there are other ways to reach the
> maintainers.  But normally most of the people who post on a help- list
> are not subscribed to read it.  It would just be a hassle to require
> people to subscribe in order to post.
> 
> It sounds like what you want to have is a discussion list, which is
> somewhat different from a help list.  Is that right?

Yes, that is what we currently do have (address@hidden).
The problem with (too) open lists is that you get lots of spam mail.