> -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Lauder [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 21 August 2011 11:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Terry Ellison > Subject: Re: [email] RE: [Discuss] ASF hosted openoffice.org email service > [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] > > On Sunday, August 21, 2011 09:21:51 PM Terry Ellison wrote: > > On 20/08/11 21:00, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > > > > > >> 1. One has to do with [email protected] where this is a personal > > >> forwarding set up for some user (or entity) and it forwards to > > >> another e-mail address. If these are preserved, forwarding them to > > >> some other email address to then be forwarded to the original entity > > >> does not make a lot of sense. The issue here is that the entity is > > >> known by that email address and has connections that access that > > >> entity by that email address. It is a good idea to preserve that > > >> service so that the entities that have use of the individual ones can > > >> somehow manage their forwarding. I would not want to figure out > how > > >> to retire it until later, and with considerable warning. Having an > > >> individual's e-mail address disappear is not a pleasant experience. > > > > > > ... How does this help us develop and publish open source software? ... > > > > There seems little point in developing any FLOSS package which doesn't > > meet the needs of its user population, as we will end up with an > > unused product. I repeat that OpenOffice.org targets the general > > PC-owning population as its user-base. This is very different to > > Apache Server, Traffic Server, Subversion and the other Apache > > projects that typically have a niche IT proficient and often IT professional > user population. > > Clearly, the success of any FLOSS package depends on the support of a > > committed core of able developers. However, the success of OOo also > > depends on a wide community of contributors, documentation and > > tutorial developers, community supporter and even just power-users who > > can evangelise the product. > > > > We have historically encouraged this community to use their oo.o > > mailboxes to foster a sense of identity. I know that I used to use my > > [email protected] address a lot: answering end-user emails and as > > my email address for a range of forums, wikis and similar services. I > > was and am proud to be associated with this project. However, because > > I realise that the address might go away, I had to trawl through my > > emails to work out which services I had subscribed to using > > [email protected] and rehook them to another mailbox: a real pain -- but > > less painful than suddenly finding out that I had become disconnected > > from them. So my answer is that alienating our extended community of > > supporters would not be something that we should do lightly. OOo > depends on their support. > > > > //Terry > > > Likewise, I use it all the time, I would be strongly opposed to losing the > @oo.o redirects for all of the reasons Terry outlines. Also long term users, (I > dare say I'm not the only one) would have considerable issues tracing every > single connection that uses that email. >
> Administratively and in terms of resource consumption, I don't see a big issue > leaving it as is. Are you asking Oracle to continue hosting an email service for a project they are no longer involved with? If yes, I doubt very much they will oblige. If not please explain the ease in which this transfer of email accounts, mailing lists, archives, dns, integration with our systems will take place. Your one sentence makes it sound like a 5 minute job. Gav... > > Cheers > GL > > > Graham Lauder, > OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ > http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html > >
