Elektron Musical Instruments

On Fri Sep 10 2004, divi309 <theartistformerlyknownasvandoren@...> wrote:

> I am using Outlook. The point is that I don't want to archive stuff 
> myself. I think anyone who's used to communicating through forums 
> agree that it's much handier than an mailing list. 

I totally agree with the archiving. Yahoo's mail archive really sucks, 
which makes it very hard to find anything. I would like to download _all_ 
mails somehow, that way at least I could search them easily.

What I like in the mailinglist format of communication is that I do not 
have to go to some webpage, suffer slow servers and such. The mails are in 
my inbox when I start reading mail. 

> By the way, I never said I wanted to cancel the list h\ufffd. Prefer that? 
> Then keep using it. But it's true that the community then gets split 
> in 2 groups. 

Which at least to me is a very good reason to either have a web forum or a 
mailinglist. Not both.

> There has been mentioned the argument that a forum should be Elektron 
> official. Why couldn't it just be an initiative of the community? I 
> think Elektron would like there to be a forum that they don't have to 
> monitor themselves. This list isn't either. I and for sure others 
> here would be very willing to moderate a forum and keep it going in 
> the right direction. I'm sure Jeffry from synthforum could help with 
> advice for that. (btw, respect jeffry!)

I could help out with that too, have been moderating one of the larger 
Swedish music forums for a couple of years now.

> Let's keep this discussion going in a positive way so we can figure 
> out what the point of view of the community really is (and Elektron's 
> too).

The point? At least to it is this. Communication! All information in one
place for all Elektron users. Too bad this list is still on Yahoo though,
that makes not as good as a mailing list can be.

/Janne