Burton, what is the bottom line reason for wanting to end the mailing list? This is far easier to monitor and respond than forums. The last thing I want to be doing is having to login to the forum to see wtf is going on when I already have it sitting in my inbox.
Burton Johnsey wrote: > Given the feedback received from the list, we are holding off migrating the > mailing lists to the forums. > > The intent of migrating to the forums was to leverage the benefits and > features of the forums to further strengthen the community, giving us a > central spot to gather feedback. The forum software is continually being > updated by vBulletin and is flexible enough to also allow us to add our own > features. > > To address a couple of specific concerns about the forums: > > - Membership - We can keep the membership in the DS forums private so that > random forum users cannot post. > - Moderation - We can assign moderators for specific forums. Moderators would > be volunteers from the current mailing list participants. > - Forum server performance - We have upgraded the system that runs the forums > and we do not experience the lag we were experiencing in the past > - Search CAPTCHA - The captcha is only displayed when not logged in. As long > as you are logged in, you will never see a captcha while searching. > - The forums are accessible to more people than the mailing list. > > We want to make things better, not worse. We appreciate any further > feedback you have to offer. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Burton Johnsey > Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM > Subject: Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, > Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > We will be shutting down the HLDS mailing lists on Friday, February 20th. > > After February 20th, all server discussions should take place in one of the > forums listed below. > > Windows server discussion should be conducted here: > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 (Source) > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (Gldsrc) > > Linux server discussion should be conducted here: > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45 (Source) > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 (Gldsrc) > > If you have not already done so, please register a forum > account<http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/register.php>. > > NOTE: The mailing list archives will still be available for viewing. > > -BurtonJ > Valve Software > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
