uups, my collegue was logged in on my computer - wrong user profile. Sorry.

2009/12/16 Jaroslav Hajek <[email protected]>:
> Nice. But besides the search capabilities, I see no big advantages.

Just the main 3:

* You don't need to register. You can go there, search for a solution
to your problem. In most cases that should be enough.
* Privacy: In a forum I don't spread my email address. In a mailing
list it's very easy to collect email adresses. I've already had to
abandon 2 of my former email-adresses because they were spammed so
massively after posting to newsgroups.
* Only as many emails as I want that.

Again: You can subscribe to the complete forum, then you will get
everything as email.
I personally don't want that.
I am more or less just interested in the problems I have.
So I go to the forum, check if there's already a solution
If there is one I might want to subscribe to it so I get informed when
there's discussion on that topic again.
I also subscribe to topics I find to be important, so I get updated
when there's news and I can find them later easily (there's an area
"your subscriptions")
If I see questions where I can help, I post my comments
Then I post my question and when someone responses I get an email
automatically (If I've set up my profile that way)

However, I understand that you like to do it differently and I respect
that. I just thought a different means of communication could make
life a bit easier, especially for new Octave-users.

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