Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013, 20:36:22 schrieb Derek Atkins: > John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> writes: > > On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I think most of the devs here know that I and other documentation team > >> members get emails from time to time for people looking for GnuCash > >> support. A lot of the time they say they gave up in frustration after > >> trying to find someone to email on the GnuCash website. > >> > >> I'm hoping this will change that by simplifying the `mailing lists' > >> term > >> to `public discussion forums'. > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > That's not really a simplification. Worse, I think that if you call it > > that then people will think that they're web forums, and we have > > enough trouble with nabble users who don't understand that they're > > using a web interface to a mailing list. > > I agree. Please do not call it a "forum".
No, I think Yawar has a valid point here. The term "mailing list" to a non- tech user does not sound like some place where discussions are being held. I'd welcome any better wording that is more accessible for non-tech users as well. Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
