On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Paul wrote: > On 3 Jun 2009 at 13:08, Scott Haneda wrote: > >> So now, I have to know to go to sf.net and get an account there? I >> did so, used a login name I wanted to change, to find out I can not. >> Then I find out, you can not, in any way, delete a sf.net account. >> So >> I login, change my email address to mailinator and abandon that >> account. >> >> Curious, what happened to my old data that was in the old forums, who >> ended up with that data? > > Scott, the old forums are still there and > usable, but I find phpBB that SF now provides > a much better format. Fritz has been asking > everyone who posts to the old one to repost to > the new forum for quite a few months now, so > there hasn't been much traffic there this > year. You can get to theold posts in exactly > the same way as before from the Project page.
Thanks, by any chance do you have the url to those old forums? Can we just close the old forums, make them read only, and stop wasting dev time to push users to the new forums, and have the old forums state to us the new forums? > Your login details to the old forums will work > fine with the new forums, as they are all > controlled by SF. There's no need to create a > new account. Cool, good to know. I still hate that it is tied to sf.net. They do not allow account deletion, it is not a very flexible system. >> It is in phpBB, but wrapped up in http auth, which is so incredibly >> confusing to the end user. I emailed a listed admin a few months >> back, when the whole wiki and forums disappeared, offering to simply >> host them at my colo. Nothing. > > The phpBB login is all down to SF (AIUI) and > we can't alter it. The old admins are not > involved with ASSP anymore. Ok, this makes sense now. So can we get a simple ... ah ha, I see someone did it "NOTE: Create a SourceForge login to post on this Forum!" Nice! I would only add that when you click on that link, it would be nice to have a brief explanation of all we talked about here. I would be happy to write it up, if I know it can be put in there. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
