Re: Pricing ACL

Duane Rettig <duane@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

[Sorry for the lateness of these responses; we're having trouble with
our news provider, which we're trying to fix. I'd use google groups,
but I really like gnus, so I want to see if we can fix the underlying
service there first... ]

>> But it
>> gets even better than that: A mailing list can be archived and made
>> publicly accessible - see gmane.org for example. There you'll find
>> literally thousands of emails which comprise (part of) the combined
>> wisdom of the LW user community and many of your questions are
>> probably answered before you've even started your email program.
>> Maybe your spr database carries even more interesting information but
>> I guess you won't open it up to the public any time soon... :)
>
> Yes; now we're finally talking - this is precisely the reason for
> a public forum. And the Allegro-CL list is open and archived (it
> even has a link in the location I gave to David). But it is up to our
> users to use it or not, and they tend to choose not to, presumably
> (and I do assume here) because the response is faster on average
> when given from the support mailing list, _and_ because the responses
> tend to be helpful.

I'm also told by our Allegro-CL administrator that there is a
gmane interace: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.allegro - it is
not mentioned in our support page; I'll try to get that changed.

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