Octave Mailing Lists

There are several mailing lists devoted to Octave.

help: General discussion about using and installing Octave.
To see the collection of prior posting to the list, visit the help archives.
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bug: Bug reports (sometimes fixes are posted to this list).
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sources: Enhancements contributed by Octave users.
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graphics: Discussion about future development of GUI and graphics tools for Octave.
Please note: this is a mailing list for discussion of future developement, not a place to ask how to use the current Octave graphics features.
To see the collection of prior posting to the list, visit the graphics archives.
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maintainers: Discussion about the development and maintenance of Octave.
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info: Announcements about new releases of Octave and other news.
All postings to info-octave are also sent to the help-octave mailing list, so you do not need to subscribe to both info-octave and help-octave.
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Note: we are in the process of moving the mailing lists to a new server. Archives of messages posted prior to 24 April 2006 may be found here:

help: [ 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 ]

bug: [ 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 ]

sources: [ 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 ]

graphics: [ 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 ]

maintainers: [ 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 ]

Thanks to Douglas Eck, the old message archives are also searchable. A search feature for the new archives is not yet available.