On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 02:00:08PM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 08:49, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:28:54AM +0100, G R Hewitt wrote: > > > Maybe a forum might serve better than a mailing list, there are many > > > advantages over a mailing list? > > > > > ... and there are many disadvantages! > > > > 1 - I (like may others here I expect) use a lot of, mostly technical, > > mailing lists. I can read them *all* in my mail program. If I had > > to use forums to do the same I'd have to connect to 60 or more > > different web sites to see all the messages. > > > > 2 - I can use the same, familiar, tools for handling all my messages. > > I don't have to use the message editor that a forum imposes on me. > > > > 3 - Very few forums preserve message threading properly so it becomes > > very difficult to follow messages in sub-threads etc. > > > > 4 - I can easily keep useful/interesting messages (or complete > > threads) to refer to later, locally on my computer. > > > > etc. etc. > > > Well I suppose if you are a techno-person with 60 or more different tech > sites, that would make sense. > But I don't suppose that most users of Gnucash are, and are likely > Accountants, Book-keepers,
But it is a 'technical' mailing list in that it is all about how to use, fix bugs, etc. in a big complex piece of software. While many (most) of the lists I use are software related they are also mostly 'user' lists. Having said that there are a few forum software suites that also provide E-Mail access so one can get the best of both worlds. The one I know about is called Discourse, it's used by a couple of the lists I'm on and works well both by E-Mail and as a forum. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
