Harold Fuchs wrote:
Following a spate of e-mails to this list from users having problems
registering with the OO web-forums, I just sent the following message
to the
Site Feedback section of the web-forum at www.oooforum.org
<snip...>
I believe the following to be true:
* The forum is owned by a single individual.
* The owner is the only administrator
* The owner is somehow in the hosting business
* The owner covers all costs associated with the forum
* The owner is typically very busy and therefore response times are slow.
* Extra administrators were discussed and agreed upon and then it just
never happened.
The interesting question in my mind is related to "why were the
administrators never created" (and I should probably ask him by email,
but queries to the status of this have not been answered). There has
been speculation as to the cause, some of it with very legitimate
reasons that other administrators should not be allowed (like the
machine may host customer data so outside entities should not have admin
access to the computer).
The OOo community has two options.
1. Accept it and move on.
2. Formulate a plan to move the forum to new systems.
1 is easy, 2 is obviously more difficult. I could outline some of what
would need to be done to make this happen, but in either case,
coordination with the current owner should be done. If I started it, I
would have a strong emotional attachment to the ownership.
Then again, I might be completely wrong on all accounts. For the most
part, I have simply accepted this situation and tell the users "sorry,
but nothing can be done of which I am aware" and then I post a message
to the moderator mailing list and then life moves on.
I also know that a change was put in place, which seems to indicate that
there are other administrators, to reduce SPAM on the forum. So,
obviously I am not as well informed as I might like.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
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