Re: [linux-audio-user] What purpose does this list serve?

On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:52, Greg Wilder wrote: Personally, I'm subscribed to the list to see announcements of promising tools I would otherwise have never heard of.... and to keep an easily searchable local archive for when I do foolish things like try to get low latency, JACK, ALSA and Timidity all working together. That has proved invaluable to me in the past. In my experience, lists organically turn into the sum of the wishes of the participants.... and when those wishes come into conflict, they cancel each other out and you're left with noise. I actually have no idea what you're even talking about here, but I retrieve web pages programmatically all the time in my non-audio-related coding. Is this a nice way of asking how to record webcasts or something? Can't speak for anyone else, but I have no interest in this topic whatsoever (or anything else involving live performance or improv.) These sound more like something I would talk about on a game developer's list, myself. While I have no interest in that topic either, not every major-label artist or producer with a computer uses Protools and it's interesting to talk about what could be done to make our tools more acceptable to people not on this list. In any case, why not just start talking about what's of interest to you? If no one responds after a number of posts over a number of weeks, then you'll know you're barking up the wrong tree. If they do, then congratulations, you've improved the list AND moved it in a direction more interesting to yourself. Rob