On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Annaert Jan wrote:
+1
Jan
Jan Annaert
On 19/11/2018, 11:13, stefano.fachin(a)uniroma1.it wrote:
My vote is the for mailing list format: while I read all the (useful)
messages appearing in my mailbox my visits to the forums which in
principle interest me are much more irregular.
bye
Stefano
I, too, like the mailing list format better, but I have to acknowledge
that most people nowadays are used to the forum format and (most
importantly) the expect to find the "knowledge base", as embodied in the
mailing list archives, when they google for things like "gretl panel data
gmm" or "gretl arima forecast".
So, here's my proposal: we (as in Uni Ancona) will host the mailing lists
from January 2019: my top IT guy (who's in cc) said he's perfectly OK with
it, except he needs some time to set things up. We'll keep having the
existing 3 lists (user/dev/announce), but we'll use Mailman 3, which
features Postorius, a very nice modern interface for reading archives. To
give you an idea of what it look like, go here:
https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/
I understand it should also be possible to migrate the existing archives
to the Mailman3 format, so nothing would be lost. Of course, for this to
happen some degree of cooperation between the WFU and our IT staff would
be necessary, but I'm confident that won't be a problem.
I don't really know what it takes to show up in google searches, but I
assume Google will find out soon if we provide links to the new site on
our Sourceforce page.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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