On 03/04/2010 06:09 PM, NoOp wrote:
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
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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 :-)
Add me +1. I'll use a web-forum if that's the only way to get help,
but I find the responsiveness and ease of use of an email list to be
generally far better than any web-based forum.
And add me +1 on the big round of thanks to Frank and the other Sun
contributors to the list. Always helpful; always polite.
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