On Saturday 28 January 2006 10:58, harryc wrote: > Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > > On the list, today, you stated this - I've had no idea for about a week > > or so now, and thought perhaps the owners sold the domain. > > That is not through any fault here is it? I joined this mailing list today.
No, but I mention this as an issue because there was nothing in the forum that I saw posted about it. At about 10am one day I started seeing "account suspended", which looked like someone hadn't paid the bill :) Not a big problem or anything, but it has been down a bit, and not many know whats going on. Might have been a good idea to atleast have sent out an administrative email (which is a capability of the forum, admins sending an email to all active users). > > It has happened alot > > recently with linux, and floss in general, forums, and its one of the > > reasons I support an "official" forum - one that will not be sold off and > > be dismantled. > > This seems like kind of an alarmist reaction (to no facts associated > with suseforums.net) rather than a valid argument for a single webforum. > There is no intention that I am aware of to close the current forum. > Harryc No no, don't misunderstand me... my point is, this has happened quite often. The idea has not come up recent because of suseforums, but because of a Qt and KDE related sites that had the same issue. Also, a sportbike forum, a more general motorcycle forum, a firefighter forum, pascal forum, a cad forum - all in the past year. That is why I have concern - not because I don't trust an particular forum or anything, just that its a good idea to have a "safe place" type forum. Considering the issues that can't be discussed at an official forum anyways, I feel its more a supplemental forum, and introduction for users thats easy to find. When they start asking... other... questions, they would end up elsewhere for that information. However, should anything unexpected happen to an unofficial forum, the owners/admins/mods would be able to make a post on the official forum stating the situation. So, I see the idea of an official forum as a complimentary addition to the existing community. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
