On 7/27/16, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27 July 2016 at 04:45, Roger Pack wrote: >> I would, however, like to the report that the typical work flow is, I >> assume, to reach this page: >> https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html >> See the link to "gcc-help" >> click on it, see its archives and think "I wish I could subscribe to >> this!" (but find yourself unable to do so, as navigating backward, >> then waaay down is somehow counter unintuitive). > > Nobody's talking about the link in the page footer, "Mailing lists" is > the fourth link from the top in the right hand navigation menu. That's > not waaay down anywhere. > > That page is also the top hit for "gcc mailing lists" or "subscribe to > gcc mailing list" on both duckduckgo.com and startpage.com (your > results may differ based on your own filter bubble, but I doubt it). Yes, I was not referring to it being hard to find the page, just to realize that the page is a list of mailing lists and (at the bottom, off screen) the subscription options :) > And if you really can't find it, you don't need to be subscribed to > the list to post anyway. The problem in my particular case came when apparently some responses to my question were sent to the mailing list but not CC to me. So I never received them :| [1] > So I really don't think it's needed, but we could do something like > this on each archives page: > > > --- index.html.orig 2016-07-27 09:10:39.983327198 +0100 > +++ index.html 2016-07-27 09:13:37.238252015 +0100 > @@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ > <h1>The gcc-help mailing list archives</h1> > > For information about this project, please see the <a href="/"> > -gcc project web page</a>. > +GCC project web page</a>. > +<p> > +For subscription options see the <a href="/lists.html">GCC > +mailing lists page</a>. > > <p> > <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch"> > That would be great for people new to the system, like myself. Thanks :) -roger- [1] ex: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2016-07/msg00030.html
