[GNC] Gnucash-User

[David Cousens]

David T,

It is just a web interface to the mail listserver. I find it has some advantages in presentation of threaded posts
particularly when looking back over archived material compared with my mail client. Someone has updated the signup
instructions some time ago to point out that you have to be signed up to both the Nabble interface and the GnuCash
mailing list and the the Nabble signup can now send an email to signup to the GnuCash mail listserver when you signup to
Nabble. It otherwise operates independently of the gnucash mail listserver. It normally only creates a problem for the
gnucash list when new users sign up without reading the instructions fully first.

This appears to be some change in the Nabble access rules, possibly in a software update, which prevents registered
users from creating new posts. The problem is whoever is administering it, if anyone, does not appear to be monitoring
the emails to the administrator from users as I have now sent 5-10 over the last few weeks. Anyone can create a Nabble
interface to any mailing list which seems an OK idea, until you get an orphan which no longer functions. There seems to
be no way to contact whoever is running the servers which feed Nabble to point out that a particular mail listserver
interface has been orphaned.

I think it would probably be better to bring it into the fold so that the Gnucsh  mailing list administrators have
someone to contact when the occasional problem like this occurs

Nabble is still OK for browsing and archive searching but not posting so for the moment we have no choice but to get our
Kool ade direct from the source rather than from the Soda Stream. The downside for me is I have to remember to swap
email signatures from my professional persona to my gnucash persona when I swap hats.

David Cousens

On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 20:23 -0400, D. wrote:
> I guess all that would recommend abandoning nabble altogether, and drinking the gnucash Kool ade directly from
> lists.gnucash.org... just saying.?.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> Sent: Sun Jul 05 17:01:40 EDT 2020
> To: Liz <edodd at billiau.net>, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Cc: GnuCash-User <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash-User
> 
> Liz, Adrian,
> 
> The Nabble interface seems to have a problem at the moment, I have been unable to post from it for a couple of weeks
> now
> and have had the same problem of no response to messages from whoever is administering it.
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 20:08 +1000, Liz wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 07:54:56 -0700
> > John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > 
> > > > On Jul 3, 2020, at 11:03 PM, Adrian Holbrook
> > > > <megagrumpy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I have been trying to post on the forum but for some reason am no
> > > > longer allowed to post. I have sent a number of messages trying to
> > > > get permission but with no response from the moderator.
> > 
> > Sorry Adrian, but I am not stopping you from posting. 
> > I don't know where you have been sending messages requesting
> > permission, but they haven't reached me as moderator.
> > 
> > Were you sending from Nabble beforehand? We don't control what happens
> > with Nabble. Posts made through Nabble come straight through if the
> > writer is registered with the Gnucash mailing list involved, otherwise
> > they sit in the queue for me to check.
> > At the bottom of every email from the Gnucash server is the
> > instructions on how to join.
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> > 
> > Liz
> > with Moderator hat in place.
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