On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Regards, > Adrien > > On 12/10/21 3:05 PM, p...@kroitor.ca wrote: > > Guilty as charged (and I can't even claim I'm not an old hand at mailing > > lists). Apologies again! > > > > I know there are endless posts going back years about switching to something > > more forgiving. IMHO the biggest problem with them is how unforgiving they > > are once a mistake is made. With a forum (or half-a-dozen other approaches) > > at least a moderator can clean up unintended (or even intended) fiascos. > > > Don't sweat it Paul! > > The 'unforgiving' nature is because it is e-mail. Once it is out there, it > is out there. No changes are possible as the transmission has already > occurred and is fully completed. > > Thankfully one *cannot* edit an e-mail after sending. > However it's perfectly possible to reply to one's own E-Mail on a list if you have made an error. If it's simply a typo then just quote only the line with the error and correct it.
E-Mail is still by far the most popular (and useful IMHO) communication medium used for software technical[ish] discussions. I am on far too many (mostly software) discussion lists to even possibly contemplate them moving to forums. With E-Mail everything arrives in my mail program (sorted into separate places for each list), if they were forums I'd have to got to (more than 60) different web pages and log in on each to see postings. -- 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
