[Tioga-news] tioga-users mailing list -- a bit more info about it

[Bill Paxton]

Hello again,

Judging by Piet's response (see below), it seems that I should have  
given a bit more info about the new mailing list.  (Thank you, Piet,  
for the heads-up.)

Here's the background: A new Tioga user, Jilani Khaldi, sent a  
message to tioga-news asking for more info about getting started.  An  
experienced user, Vincent Fourmond, replied to the question and also  
suggested that it would be nice to have a separate mailing list for  
such things.  Following his suggestion I have created tioga-users as  
the preferred forum for this Q&A kind of message as well as for  
lengthy philosophical discussions pondering profound problems such as  
the relative merits of the use of "transparency" versus "opacity" as  
keywords in commands. ; - )

The tioga-news list will continue to be the place for announcements  
of new releases, new documentation, and other such "semi-official"  
news concerning Tioga.  However, you don't have to be one of the  
Tioga developers to post to this list  For example, if you've made up  
some notes on how to use Tioga and would like to share them with  
others, tioga-news would be an appropriate place to announce their  
availability.

Cheers,
Bill

p.s.  Here's the new info from the webpage about the lists.


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Mailing Lists

There is a mailing list for information about Tioga such as new  
releases, new documentation, etc.   Please subscribe at tioga-news  
before sending mail to tioga-news at rubyforge.org.

There is also a mailing list for comments, questions, and answers  
concerning the use of Tioga.   Please subscribe at tioga-users before  
sending mail to tioga-users at rubyforge.org.

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Piet Hut <piet at ias.edu>
> Date: April 4, 2006 11:55:30 PM PDT
> To: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tioga-news] tioga-users mailing list
>
> Hi Bill:
>
> Greetings from Amsterdam, where we just had another MODEST event.
>
> Let me see whether I get this correctly:
>
>> There is now a mailing list for comments, questions, and answers
>> about using Tioga.   Please subscribe at tioga-users before sending
>> mail to tioga-users at rubyforge.org.
>
> do you mean that there are now two different Tioga email lists,
> one for news and one for users?  What is the difference?  Should
> the "news" subscribers resubscribe to the "users" list or did you
> copy all of us automatically?  I'm currently not a heavy tioga user,
> but I'd like to keep updated about developments, so I guess I should
> be subcribed to both then, correct?
>
> Signed: puzzled ;>),
>
> Piet

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