Hello,

You can now use the GIMP mailing lists from the Web just like any other forum:

http://www.gimpusers.com/forums/

To post messages, you only need a gimpusers.com account.

Please note that some forums/lists are read-only (gimp-developer etc). If you want to write to these lists, use your normal mail client.

Aaaarg! Why did you do this?

I have seen the necessity of this because I sometimes want to answer some mails on the lists, but it's all complicated and time-intensive. Subscribing to the list itself, creating rules in the mail client that move the messages into appropriate folders, mark them as read automatically; the whole thing is not available from anywhere if you don't have an IMAP mailbox etc. etc. So I thought this was a good idea.

I also saw that other people used Gmane for this purpose (there you also can read/post to lists via Web) but it wasn't that comfortable and GIMP specific.

So - Why not?

Please also note that only messages to gimp-user, gimpwin-users and gimp-web can be posted via gimpusers. All other lists are read-only.

Can you please at least make sure that you only can den text mails

and

no HTML mails.

Why do you think HTML mails can be posted?

Because I have seen more HTML posts than usually since you announced your forum mail bridge. If it is not possible then I'm sorry.

I can calm you - there's only a normal plain TEXTAREA for the message. It even converts special characters to US-ASCII, as the etiquette says.

what kind of etiquette?

http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html See "List Etiquette", "Use the 7-bit ASCII character set."

We should be using utf-8 nowadays. People like to have their own

names and

aanmes of places, software, etc... written in full. HTML is plain stupid. But utf-8 is not to be stuck in the 70's, and

would

show a little respect with "the rest of the World".

Basically, I agree. I made the Web interface so that all kinds of character sets can be read and interpreted, but only US-ASCII is sent, just as in "be tolerant in what you receive and be strict in what you send".