[gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Tue Jan 15 17:07:17 EST 2013


On Tue, January 15, 2013 4:35 pm, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 January 2013 21:29, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, January 15, 2013 4:23 pm, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It could be called something like a 'support and discussion mailing
>>> list'.  I think that it would be incorrect to use the word forum.  It
>>> would certainly be unconventional and confusing.
>>
>> How about "email support and discussion list(s)"?
>
> There are only 120 ways of reordering the words, one of them should do :)

True.  My specific suggestion was to include the word "email", and not use
the phrase "mailing list".

This whole thread is about wordsmithing..  :-/

> Colin

-derek

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