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David T. On Feb 10, 2025, 8:23 AM, at 8:23 AM, David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am not sure what the official position is re the mail archive site. >AFAIK it mirrors posts to the official lists which are maintained by >the GnuCash team and moderated by Liz. I just find it much easier to >locate posts and threads on the mail archive site that in the official >mailing lists. > >david Cousens > > >On Mon, 2025-02-10 at 11:34 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
