[Halld-offline] email list: root_list at jlab.org

[Blake Leverington]

Hi Mark,

This mailing list is a great idea. I've spent a few years now googleing
my way through ROOT with some questions just going unanswered. Is there
also an easy way to search the list for Keywords, etc. , to avoid
redundant questions?

-Blake

Mark M. Ito wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Many of us often have "dumb questions" about the use of root in our 
> day-to-day work. I recently discovered that there is an email list, 
> root_list at jlab.org, that we could use to get answers to our questions 
> from a local user base. The list is currently lightly subscribed to and 
> rarely used, but I think it would make a convenient forum for these 
> kinds of questions.
>
> The standard root forums are of course a much richer source of 
> information, but it can be a significant amount of work to get your 
> question into a forum-worthy form. Also, if the question is really dumb, 
> one does not dare even ask. With a local question and answer forum, we 
> can be much more informal; what is a dumb question or two among friends 
> anyway?
>
> My real motivation in writing this is to have enough subscribers to the 
> list so that I can start asking dumb questions, of course!
>
> Let me know what you think, or better yet go ahead and subscribe. You 
> can do that at the list page:
>
>    https://mailman.jlab.org/mailman/listinfo/Root_list .
>
> I've tried to cast this broadly, so sorry in advance for multiple copies 
> of this message. Also, if there are other lists where this can be 
> advertised, feel free to forward this.
>
>    -- Mark
>
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