Dear gretl users, For years this list has been hosted by Wake Forest University, but I've recently heard that WFU is going to discontinue support for mailing lists. We have (I think) about 6 weeks' grace; beyond that we'll have to come up with an alternative. Three ideas are under consideration: (1) Stay with the mailing list format, if we can find another suitable host. (2) Migrate to a Google Group. (It's my understanding that you don't need to have a gmail account to participate in such a group.) (2) Re-frame gretl-users as a forum (or set of topic-specific forums) on Sourceforge.net. If you have a strong preference, you might wish to let us know! Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

Em sex, 16 de nov de 2018 às 18:23, Boris Demeshev <boris.demeshev(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: > > Migrate to stats.stackexchange.com. Under the 'gretl' tag. It will also promote gretl visibility. It's a good point :-)

El 16 nov 2018, a las 22:34, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; escribió: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Henrique Andrade wrote: >> >> Em sex, 16 de nov de 2018 às 18:23, Boris Demeshev >> <boris.demeshev(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: >>> Migrate to stats.stackexchange.com. Under the 'gretl' tag. It will also promote gretl visibility. >> It's a good point :-) > > I guess that would be good for the users list. Not so sure about points related to the development. > > Perhaps we could encourage people to use stackexchange for question on "how to do this and that" in hansl/gretl and migrate to a forum for the discussion on development (new features, function pachages etc). 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 _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

Em sex, 16 de nov de 2018 às 18:23, Boris Demeshev <boris.demeshev(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: > > Migrate to stats.stackexchange.com. Under the 'gretl' tag. It > will also promote gretl visibility. It's a good point :-)