On 03/04/2010 04:14 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:59:42 +0100 >> Frank Mehnert <frank.mehn...@sun.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> we've decided to close the vbox-users mailing list as the traffic is >>> very low and the VBox forums at http://forums.virtualbox.org/ are a >>> better place to ask related questions. Of course, before opening a >>> new topic you should search the forum if your answer is already there. >>> >>> The vbox-dev mailing list will remain. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Frank >> >> Honestly this sounds like walking the way to hell for me. Remember the days >> when mailing-lists "were" newsgroups? newsgroups were trivial to host and did >> produce only the amount of traffic that people really interested in the >> corresponding group needed. Then suddenly everything had to be a >> mailing-list, >> traffic was wasted, administration is sh*tty because people tend to not >> unsubscribe so you get lots of dead emails in almost every list. But that is >> not worse enough, now we have to go to web-based forums that combine just >> every thinkable disadvantage. >> Hey, let's use twitter like some android guys do .... :-(( >> >> >>> -- >>> Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert >>> >>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: >>> Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten >>> Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 >>> Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels >>> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring >> >> > For what it's good I agree with everyone pleading to let this mailing > list exist. > Forum's are hell just like several others pointed out. and about low > traffic: There are approx. between 5 and 20 mails a day. It shows the > fact that the product is rather stable and most questions are > business-like and to the point. Spare me the mailing lists (and forums > are 100 % worse) which people use for their personal blog or to rant > about non-list related subjects (look in the ubuntu-mailing list for > that matter!!). > I would like to plea for a rational decision, but I fear that the new > owners of Sun think only in $$ and have the idea that personnel must > make billable hours and not devote time to lowly customers (which > answering mail amounts to). I personally am convinced that it is a > management decision. not from the technicians who do all the work. > > Well, Frank and the other Sun contributors to the mailing list, thanks > for the invaluable advice and insight I have seen in your answers and we > have to find other ways to get our questions answered. > Joep
+1 Note: no snip as I'm trying to generate more traffic :-) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
