[GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

[Stan Brown]

On 2021-10-08 01:16, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 21:42, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
> 
>> I predict that we could have a big discussion about the pros and cons of
>> email lists and forums, and we would end up without a resolution; we
>> would discover that no one option works for everyone.
> 
> For what it's worth, there are also ~280 questions on gnucash on
> money.stackexchange.com, a site run by a commercial company (best
> known for Stack Overflow) but with user contributions licensed
> CC-BY-SA.  https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnucash
> 
> The Q&A form in general and stackexchange specifically have their own
> pros and cons compared to forums or email; in my opinion, all three
> are complementary (as is chat).

I have a lot of respect for StackExchange. Their system seems to result
in incorrect answers getting corrected fairly quickly. Quite often when
I google a technical question a StackExchange is near the top of results,
and it's nearly always helpful.

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