[GNC] GnuCash list

[David Cousens]

Greg,

It is not that complicated (although it could be in principle). Nabble is a company and it gets some income from Google
ads on the Nabble interface. That is apparently not sufficient to cover their operating costs recently and they have
also  had server failures and are currently reexamining their financial model to see if they can remain viable (nabble
Support Forum (http://support.nabble.com/). Only some Nabble interfaces from their dead server(s) have currently been
migrated to a new server at this stage. 

You can sign up to the GnuCash Mail lists from the Nabble interface (it sends a
subscribe email with the Nabble user credentials to the GnuCash mailing lists) or you can register on Nabble with the
GnuCash mailing list credentials. Nabble has never altered my settings and or password on the GnuCash mailing list
although I think there is an option to switch off receiving the list emails if you want to use it.

The administrator of the Nabble interface to the GnuCash mailing list (Hugo) also appears to have gone MIA and can't be
contacted. He was never officially connected with the GnuCash team AFAIK. I have been using GnuCash since 2010 and the
Nabble interface for almost as long. Possibly the best solution would be if someone associated with the  GnuCash
teamcould take over that role if it is indeed vacant.  I have recently posted on the Nabble support forum asking for
some clarification of the Nabble GnuCash interface status and whether it still has active administration from Hugo and
whether it is possible to transfer administration if not. 

David Cousens


On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 06:53 -0700, Greg Feneis wrote:
> Not familiar with Nabble, but what if...
> 
> ...A user gives over their GnuCash email list credentials to Nabble at some
> early stage, thinking they're just doing what's required to be on the list
> (a Nabble-sent email with instructions, like a phishing scheme) and Nabble
> takes that info and alters the user's list settings and perhaps password,
> so it eventually seems to the user that the only way the user can access
> the list is through Nabble?
> 
> For this to work, the Nabble bot would need its own account on the list and
> that account would have to get a notification every time a new user joins
> (don't even know if that's possible), or somehow monitor the list's
> activity just enough to detect when new users join the list.
> 
> Something like this might explain why ppl claim various issues with normal
> list interaction + claim they can only read and work with the list through
> Nabble.
> 
> Kind regards, Greg Feneis
> (Pixel 3)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 06:13 Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Nabble is not GnuCash. They are a site that provides access to one or more
> > mailing lists (of any subject) in a web forum format instead of having to
> > use regular e-mail that mailing lists use.
> > 
> > At some point in history ‘Hugo’ linked the gnucash-user list to Nabble. No
> > one seems to know if permission from the GnuCash team was ever sought or
> > obtained when this was done.
> > 
> > Joining Nabble does *not* subscribe you to the mailing list.
> > 
> > You do not *need* to join Nabble to use the list. You don’t ever need to
> > use Nabble at all to get help with GnuCash. (I never have and I joined this
> > list years ago)
> > 
> > Mailing lists are just e-mail. They have their own Netiquette and some
> > tips on this can be found in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists.
> > 
> > I hope that clears up some confusion.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 6:59 AM, butterandpeanuts at gmail.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > *I would have responded earlier, however, I experienced the exact same
> > > situation as Adrian. I've been a participant on the GnuCash list for
> > 
> > YEARS,
> > > and all of a sudden through nabble I was/am no longer able to post or
> > 
> > reply
> > > to the list.  I also get NO RESPONSE from the infamous "Hugo" whoever
> > > s/he/it is... very frustrating.  I just joined the list directly, but I
> > 
> > too
> > > am totally confused.*
> > 
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Dr David R Cousens
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