Re: [Gretl-users] upcoming change to the list!

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: A fair number of us are subscribed to both gretl-users and gretl-devel, and the two lists are equally affected by the change in WFU's policy, but if people don't mind too much I'd prefer to keep discussion of the future of these lists separate. We've had a common format for years but arguably we have (or may have) different needs. On this particular list, then, I'd rather keep to the "users" topic. My concern about the stats.stackexchange option is just that questions on how to do this or that _in hansl/gretl_ may not be very welcome there. I have the impression that they favour questions on "how to do this or that" or "how to interpret this or that" in general terms, although apparently it's OK to specify your question via a script or script fragment (or output fragment) pertaining to the software of your choice. It may be worth quoting the rubric of the "r" tag: "Use this tag for any *on-topic* question that (a) involves `R` either as a critical part of the question or expected answer, & (b) is not *just* about how to use `R`." Not sure how coherent this is, but you can sort of see what they're getting at ;-) By contrast, over the years we've tended to say that we're not in the business of answering general econometrics questions on gretl-users (though we've actually done so on quite a few occasions!), but looking for questions specific to gretl. Allin