Forum Mailing Lists

There are four forum mailing lists:

Serious J users should subscribe to at least the programming forum, and the other forums depending on your level of interest.

To decide which forum to post to:

Please avoid off-topic posts to these forums, and reply to the right forum if a post is misplaced. Cross-posting is discouraged.

Etiquette

The programming, beta, and general forums are core forums. Posting messages to the core forums is restricted to active J users. Anyone is welcome to read these forums, but please do not send a message unless it is relevant to your J learning or programming.

The chat forum is an open discussion group, covering computer languages as long as there is some connection to J: array programming, aspects of other computer languages, historical tidbits, random questions about J, wish lists, etc. You don't need to be a J programmer to post to chat, and we welcome messages from outside the J community.

Many people will see your message. It is basic courtesy to take the time to compose carefully and be as concise and clear as possible.

In answering questions, remember that teaching fishing is better than giving a fish. Rather than 'this is how' say 'these docs show you how'.

Moderation

The core forums are moderated and posters of inappropriate messages will be directed to chat.

Jsoftware will remove any member that, in Jsoftware's sole opinion, sends messages that are abusive or inappropriate to the purpose of the forum.

Subscribe

To subscribe, follow the above links to the Forum Mailing List pages and enter your email address and password in the Subscribing to ... section. An email will be sent to you to confirm the subscription.

You can set options after you have subscribed.

The email address you use to post to the forum must be enrolled in the mailing list. Posts from email addresses that are not subscribed are discarded. If you only want to post from a given address, subscribe it, then alter it to not receive traffic. If you change your email address, you need to update your forum subscription.

Subscriber email addresses are kept confidential from other subscribers, and are only visible after posting an email to a forum.

Options/Unsubscribe

Follow the above links to the Forum Mailing List pages, and click the "Unsubscribe or edit options" button at the bottom of the page.

Archives

The above links to the Forum Mailing List pages also point to the forum archives.

The archives can be searched here.

See also Archives.

Bounces

Some messages sent to the forums are not accepted, and instead simply discarded.

If you sent a message and it does not appear in your forum inbox, first check whether the message was accepted by going to Forum Search and pressing the Search button. This shows the last 100 messages on the forum, and is updated every 5 minutes.

If your message was not accepted, the most likely causes are:

Formats

The mailing lists send out emails in plain text format. For best results, please send messages to the forum in this format.

When copying J session output to an email, first set box-drawing characters to Ascii. In J6, this can be done using menu Tools|Toggle Ascii Box Drawing.

Gmail

If you post a message from a gmail account, it will not show in your gmail inbox, even though the message is properly delivered to, and distributed by, the mailing list. This is a gmail feature - gmail recognizes it already has a copy of the message and does not show it again.

See http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg39734.html.

Mirrors

The three core forums (not chat) are mirrored at Gmane and the The Mail Archive:

All four forums (including Chat) are now mirrored at nabble.com mail-list service.
It has abilities to browse,search,rate and post messages via lightweight web interface.

Threads

The Mailman archives preserve message threads, so if you reply to a post, it will maintain the original thread, even if you change the subject.

If you want to start a new thread, create a new message, rather than reply to an earlier post.

System/Forums (last edited 2009-08-30 01:10:50 by ChrisBurke)