I've noticed there was some talk among the moderators about whether to allow the above post through.
I do apologize, I should have kept my amusement to myself. After all, for the people who came here to find answers to their questions it was no laughing matter. Possibly what caused the "crossed wires" in this thread was the unfamiliarity of the second poster with this odd mailinglist/forum hybrid called Nabble. Others http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/03/14/how-large-is-the-libreoffice-community-a-mailing-list-approach/#comments have remarked that LibreOffice should have a regular forum where users can go to ask for assistance. This Nabble was very hard to find for me, at the time I did not see it advertised prominently on any TDF / LibO web page. Now, I did know already about the two widely-trafficked OpenOffice volunteer forums, especially http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/. In the long run, however, it would be better either for LibO/TDF to set up their own forum (not a Nabble which poses extra difficulty) or to discuss with the management of the two premier OOo user forums a rebranding to give LibO equal billing. Mailing lists are not convenient or agreeable to the general public. People want a forum that works the way they are used to: not a Google user group, or two discussion pages on sourceforge.net, or a Nabble. This need not mean that mailing lists get shut down. Scribus, for example, is keeping its mailing lists but recently set up a http://forums.scribus.net/index.php dedicated forum as well. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/I-am-downloading-LibreOffice-to-try-it-out-tp2790818p2794570.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
