Still a question or two about the mailing list.

[David Christopher]

OK Liz, I will study those links tomorrow.  I am at the end of my mental
day. Been studying reports and replies to my questions all day. Mentally
shot till morning coffee gets me going again. Haha!
On Feb 14, 2015 5:07 PM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 February 2015 at 21:25, David <chrstdvd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Call me thick headed, but I am what I am, and I am learning this as I go.
> >
> > I have one password and user name to log into this site, what I call a
> > forum.
> >
> > Yesterday I received this email that gives me a odd password and I have
> no
> > idea what it is for.  Is it just literally to do what is described in the
> > email, or am I supposed to use it on this site when I post or reply and
> am
> > prompted to log in?
> >
> > <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4676012/mail.png>
> >
> > I am afraid to click "Do not show this message again" that I get every
> time
> > I try to post directly on here until I know why it pops up.
> >
> > <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4676012/2.png>
> >
> > And my confusion is is compounded because every post or reply on this
> site
> > has a yellow line background that says the post is has not been approved.
> > Thanks
>
> Possibly what is confusing you is that you are using nabble, which is
> not the same as the mailing list.  Nabble is nothing to do with
> gnucash, it just picks up messages from the list and displays them in
> a forum like way, and then when you enter a message into nabble it
> posts it off to the list pretending that it has come from you.  You
> still, ideally, need to be subscribed to the list at
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user.
>
> This might help you understand how mailing lists work
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list
>
> Colin
>