[texhax] LaTeX users mailing list

[Xochitl.Cormon at ifremer.fr]

I was actually refering to the R (the open source statistic software)  
list which I receive at least 200 messages a day (in good days!! lol).
When you say that the list in only about TeX, could you confirm it  
also deals with LaTeX issues?

Thank you,

Xochitl



Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> a écrit :

> On 2013-09-10 at 13:12:52 +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>  > Xochitl CORMON wrote:
>  >
>  > > I have the impression this mailing list is not really active if I
>  > > compare to other mailing list I member of? Is that a wrong
>  > > impression or is there other LaTeX users mailing list I should
>  > > know about?
>  >
>  > I think it is possible that some have migrated to Stack Exchange,
>  > for reasons that are not personally clear to me.
>
> Maybe people who have questions only occasionally don't want to
> receive all the unrelated mails.  It's not necessary to be subscribed
> to this list in order to ask questions but it's a matter of fact that
> most people are not aware of it.
>
> Furthermore, it's recommended to search the archives before asking a
> question.  Unfortunately you'll find only [sometimes quite long]
> threads there but what you are really interested in is a summary.
> Stack Exchange is excellent in this respect, much better than the
> mailing list archives.
>
> Lars, the mailing list archives are scanned by Google too, BTW.
>
> After all, most experts are still on this list and I don't have the
> impression that many people migrated.  Most people who answer
> questions at Stack Exchange are on texhax too.
>
> I doubt that there is less traffic on this list nowadays than there
> was a decade ago.  Look at
>
>   http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax
>
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> Not a single mail in June and July 2002.  Unthinkable nowadays!
>
> And regarding newsgroups, there is obviously still a lot of activity on
> de.comp.text.tex, at least.
>
> Xochitl, I don't know with which mailing list you compared texhax.
> But this list is about TeX "only".  If you compare it with an Emacs
> list, for example, you have to take into account that Emacs supports a
> lot of other things, not only TeX.  Thus it's to be expected that
> there is much more activity on the Emacs list.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
>  > You might like to investigate the TeX fora hosted there :
>  >
>  > 	http://tex.stackexchange.com/
>
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