Thank you for the links David. That is helpful. Is this link not listed in the docs anywhere? If not, are you not seeing a bunch of duplicate questions in the mailing lists? Seems like having a clearly explained method for searching for duplicates would be of somewhat high priority to keep the lists from being overwhelming.
I didn't see any response from Liz though. Still confused on how this email list is supposed to work if I'm not seeing all replies to my question. Thanks again On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As well as the method Liz mentioned it is also possible to access and > search the mailing list archives at > > https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/ > > https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/ > > You need to have existing membership of the mailing list. I cannot > remember whether or not this site will request membership if you are > not already a list member. > > David Cousens > > > On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 20:21 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: > > In the docs: > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_Forum > > > > If claims: > > > > > The *GnuCash project* does *not* use ancient *forum* software for > > > its > > > online user support. It uses mailing list technology. > > > > > > I'm completely lost as to the advantage of using a mailing list over > > an > > indexed searchable forum, Github Discussions, or otherwise. In > > particular > > I'm really struggling to find a way to find if my existing issue has > > already been discussed somewhere as the only thing indexed appears to > > be > > bugzilla and the FAQs. > > > > According to the mailing list docs: > > > > > Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing > > > lists > > > *and the search link on the archive page is broken.*Instead, use > > > the term > > > "site:lists.gnucash.org" at Google or Yahoo! to search within the > > > archives, e.g. > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.gnucash.org+string+to+search > > > > > > > I'm not sure if this worked well at one point, but it definitely does > > not > > work well for me now. See attached screenshot. It appears Google's > > crawler > > somehow finds its way to all the docs and other general content via > > the > > lists.gnucash.org, so it is not filtering out hardly anything as I > > would > > expect. The only alternative approach I can find is to browse (not > > search) > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/, which I think > > everyone > > can appreciate to not be an exactly speedy process. > > > > Is there a better way to verify existing discussions/issues > > (including this > > one)? > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
