Re: [Gnuplot-info] EXT :Re: 12M? or 12 000 000? (not 12000000)

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

On 29/06/2022 15:12, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gnuplot wrote:
> On 2022-06-28 16:07, Glenn Golden wrote:
>
>> Imo, yes.  I would like to respectfully suggest that this ongoing
>> tutorial discussion be relocated ...
>
> This sort of thing is normal on every other -users mail-list I'm
> on.
I think the idea of a single mailing list probably reflects gnuplot's 
age. Other projects I follow tend to have forums with multiple 
categories like development, using blah-blah, and so on.
>
>
>> It's pretty noisy and does not seem to contain much of general
>> interest that can't be glened from the docs.
FWIW: I think this mailing list is actually pretty quiet. This flurry of 
activity on 12M or whatever is the first for quite some while.
>
> As a newcomer to gnuplot, I'm finding it useful, because it gives
> me concrete things to try, to help me to understand gnuplot better.
>
> If no new user ever posts here, what sort of thing would you expect
> to see?
>
>
> Is IRQ (which I think means "interrupt request" - do you mean some
> sort of chat thing?) searchable in the same way that mail list
> archives tend to be?  If not, it's no use to anyone other than the
> participants at the instant in which a discussion takes place.

I think this is a mistyping of IRC - Internet Relay Chat, a chat tool 
that was used extensively by Noah but not so much since the 17th century 
😁. Hence the "Ha-ha" comment it received.

Peter